Sri Lanka Ask Pakistan To Re-think India Refusal

Sri Lanka person written to nan Pakistan Cricket Board asking them to reverse their refusal to look India successful their T20 World Cup group.

The fixture, nan biggest and astir lucrative successful nan world game, is owed to beryllium played successful Sri Lanka's superior Colombo connected 15 February but Pakistan's authorities has said nan squad will not play nan Group A game.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said connected Thursday nan determination was made to "support" Bangladesh, whose petition for their games to beryllium switched from India was rejected by nan International Cricket Council.

Bangladesh asked for their games to beryllium moved citing information concerns amid increasing governmental tensions pinch India but nan ICC said location was an "absence of immoderate reliable information threat".

They were subsequently replaced by Scotland successful nan tournament, which originates pinch Pakistan facing nan Netherlands successful Colombo connected Saturday (05:30 GMT).