{"id":9654,"date":"2008-12-19T17:35:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T17:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/12\/19\/sri-lanka-agree-to-pakistan-tour\/"},"modified":"2008-12-19T17:35:52","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T17:35:52","slug":"sri-lanka-agree-to-pakistan-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/19\/sri-lanka-agree-to-pakistan-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka agree to Pakistan tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Team replace India for January series<\/h3>\n<div>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>SRI LANKA will tour Pakistan in place of India who pulled out of next months series, the PCB have confirmed.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Saleem Altaf, the PCB\u2019s chief operating officer, confirmed Sri Lanka will travel to Pakistan next month when their current tour of Bangladesh comes to an end on 14 January.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Sri Lanka were said to have been on stand-by while a decision on whether India would tour Pakistan was being made. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Earlier this week the Indian cricket board confirmed they would not be travelling to Pakistan following a directive from its government. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Relations between the two nations have been frosty since the terror attacks in Mumbai last month. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Sri Lankan board chairman, Arjuna Ranatunga said he had no issues surrounding security in Pakistan and would \u201cnot hesitate\u201d in sending his team to the country. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Sri Lanka\u2019s tour is expected to feature three Tests, three ODIs and a Twenty20 game. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/article.aspx?articleId=1182\">India pull out of Pakistan tour<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div\/>&#13;\n<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team replace India for January series &#13; SRI LANKA will tour Pakistan in place of India who pulled out of next months series, the PCB have confirmed. &#13; Saleem Altaf, the PCB\u2019s chief operating officer, confirmed Sri Lanka will travel to Pakistan next month when their current tour of Bangladesh comes to an end on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}