The Pakistan Cricket Board has called off their Under-19 team’s tour of Sri Lanka following serial blasts that left almost 300 dead and more than 500 injured in Colombo last week.
The Pakistan team was set to leave for Colombo on April 30, with the first game scheduled for May 3 in Galle. As things stand, the tour has been postponed indefinitely.
The PCB, however has been monitoring the situation and only took the call a week later, following instructions Sri Lanka Cricket. “The tour has been postponed indefinitely,” an SLC official confirmed to ESPNcricinfo. “It was a decision taken by SLC, as we didn’t want to take any chances.”
Pakistan was scheduled to play two four-day games and three one-day matches. The matches were to be played in Galle and Hambantota.
The squad led by Rohail Nazir have been in training at a conditioning camp in Karachi over the last five days.
The team’s next assignment is a tour of South Africa in June-July, as part of their build-up to next year’s Under-19 World Cup, also in South Africa. At the previous edition in New Zealand, Pakistan were one of the losing semi-finalists.