Chamara Silva

A few days back, the Sri Lankan Cricket team was ambushed by a group of terrorists while travelling from the hotel to the stadium. This was a really surprising attack considering the fact that cricketers are revered like Gods in the sub-continent. Yup, even the terrorists are hardcore cricket fans!! As it turns out, the terrorists were actually students of the Terrorist Training School in Talibanistan, which is affiliated with the Jihadi International University. They were enrolled in the MBBS course – ‘Masters in Bomb Blasting Strategies’. And not the MSc degree – ‘Masters in Suicide Course’. Probably, that was the reason they left ... Read Full Story

Photos: AFP Cricket’s sad day: Sri Lankan cricketer Thilan Samaraweera, who was injured in the terror attack on the team, is being taken to hospital in Lahore on Tuesday. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan was grappling on Tuesday with the shock and implications of an audacious Mumbai-style terrorist attack on the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team in the heart of Lahore, carried out by a dozen men armed with guns, grenades and rockets. The team was fortunate to escape with injuries to five players. But the attack, on a moving convoy of vehicles taking the cricketers from their hotel to the Gaddafi Stadium, left eight persons dead, ... Read Full Story

A dozen masked gunmen armed with rifles and rocket launchers attacked vehicles carrying members of Sri Lanka's national cricket team in east Pakistan on Tuesday, wounding at least two players and killing five police officers, officials said. The attack in Lahore came at a time of unrest in both Pakistan and Sri Lanka, both of which are trying to defeat insurgencies. It was unclear who was behind the assault, but it appeared to have been carefully coordinated. City police chief Haji Habibur Rehman said five policemen died in the shooting and that two players were wounded. A Pakistan Cricket Board security official had earlier ... Read Full Story

By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal Arrival of spinner Ajantha Mendis has added new impetus to the Sri Lankan cricket team performance. Sri Lanka has been on its victory march and in the just concluded Test match series between Srilanka and India , once again the Colombo boys roamed home with an easy win. Sri Lanka survived early blows to clinch the series against India with a comfortable eight-wicket victory on the penultimate day of the third and final Test at Colombo on August 11 Monday. Despite the fact that the hosts lost Michael Vandort and Kumar Sangakkara in the opening seven overs and t ... Read Full Story

NEW DELHI, March 3 (Reuters) - India said Tuesday's attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan was shocking and audacious, exposing the "hopelessly inadequate" security provided to the players, six of whom were wounded. "It's a shocking incident," Palaniappan Chidambaram, India's home minister, told reporters. "It is quite clear that the security of the Sri Lankan team was hopelessly inadequate. We condemn the incident." Six Sri Lankan cricketers and their British assistant coach were wounded when gunmen attacked their bus as it drove under police escort to a stadium in the Pakistani city of Lahore, officials said. Sri Lanka's cricketers were invited ... Read Full Story