31 Jul 2015

Sri Lankan Great Hopeful For Cricket Revival In Pakistan

Peshawar: Previous Sri Lankan skipper Sanath Jayasuriya communicated good faith Friday that more global cricket matches would be held in Pakistan and said the security circumstance was enhancing in the nation. 

The 46-year-old, who is in Pakistan for the continuous arrangement in the middle of Pakistan and Sri Lanka as an examiner for a games Television slot, was conversing with columnists after his visit to the school where Taliban shooters slaughtered 154 individuals, the vast majority of them schoolchildren, in December a year ago. 

Jayasuriya, who played 110 Tests and 445 one-day internationals in a distinguished vocation that finished four years prior, said he trusts Pakistan is presently a more secure spot. 

"Pakistan is a peace-cherishing nation and individuals here affection peace," he said. 

"There is nothing to stress (about) here and life is presently ordinary, so I trust Pakistan (will) have more global cricket in future." 

No global cricket matches were played in Pakistan somewhere around 2009 and 2015 after a terrorist assault on the Sri Lanka group's transport in Lahore in Walk 2009. 

The nation's six-year detachment finished when Zimbabwe visited Pakistan in May-June this year for two Twenty20 internationals and three one-day matches. 

The Pakistan Cricket Board said it was attempting to persuade Sri Lanka, Ireland and the Netherlands to visit the nation one year from now. (AFP)