Sri Lanka To Tour Pakistan After India Pullout

Karachi: Pakistan had invited Sri Lanka to play three Tests, three One-Day Internationals and a Twenty20 game after the Indian government refused to permit its team to undertake their Test tour of Pakistan from next month.

India called off the tour on Thursday amid simmering tension between the nuclear-armed neighbours over the militant attacks in Mumbai in November.

"Sri Lanka has agreed in principle to tour for the series. We are now working out the final details... of the tour with them," Saleem Altaf, the chief operating officer of the Pakistan cricket Board said.

Altaf said the President of the Sri Lankan board, Arjuna Ranatunga, had sent his consent for the tour after Pakistan invited them for the unscheduled series.

"Sri Lanka will travel to Pakistan straight from Bangladesh where their tour ends in the third week of January," Altaf said.

He said Sri Lanka would start off with a Twenty20 game and One-dayer in Karachi and then play two One-dayers and a test in Lahore.

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