Category: Sports

LAHORE, March 6, 2009 (AFP) – Authorities in Pakistan said they had identified the gunmen who attacked the Sri Lankan cricket team, as international concern mounted Friday over how the security plans failed. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of Australia, home to two officials caught up in Tuesday’s deadly attack in the city of Lahore, demanded […]

SYDNEY, March 5, 2009 (AFP) – Australian cricket umpire Steve Davis slammed Pakistan on Thursday for failing to protect him and other officials who came under fire during the attack earlier this week on Sri Lanka’s cricket team.“The driver’s foot was lodged on the accelerator and it was revving at a million miles an hour,” […]

March 5, 2009 (AFP) – Two Sri Lankan cricketers injured during a gun and grenade attack in Pakistan have undergone surgery and are recovering in hospital, a doctor said on Thursday. Tharanga Paranavitana who had a bullet lodged in his chest and Thilan Samaraweera, who had shrapnel in his right leg, underwent surgery at a […]

LAHORE, March 4, 2009 (AFP) – Pakistan stepped up a manhunt on Wednesday for the armed militants behind a deadly ambush targeting Sri Lanka’s cricket team, which has plunged the troubled nation deeper into crisis.It was the first deadly direct assault against a sports team in nuclear-armed Pakistan, where over 1,600 people have died in […]

March 4, 2009 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s wounded and shaken cricketers flew home to Colombo Wednesday and were rushed straight to a local hospital, a day after being attacked in a deadly ambush in Pakistan, officials said. There were emotional scenes as relieved relatives welcomed home the 25-member tour party, who were led from a […]

Mar 04, 2009 (LBO) – An armed ambush of the Sri Lanka cricket team, which visited Pakistan when India pulled out of a tournament, was an attack on peaceful relations among the two South Asian nations, the United States said. Several Pakistan policemen who were protecting the players died in the attack. “This is not […]

LAHORE, March 3, 2009 (AFP) – Several Sri Lankan cricket players were shot and wounded Tuesday when their bus came under fire in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore, their manager Brenden Kurrupu told AFP. . .

March 3, 2009 (AFP) – At least three players in the Sri Lankan cricket team were hurt in a gun attack while being driven to the Lahore cricket stadium in Pakistan on Tuesday, Sports Minister Gamini Lokuge said. The team bus came under fire as the players headed to the Gaddafi stadium for the third […]

LAHORE, March 3, 2009 (AFP) – Masked gunmen opened fire on the Sri Lankan cricket team’s bus in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Tuesday, killing at least eight people and wounding six team members, police said.Sri Lankan officials said six team members — five players and a coach — were wounded and that […]

LAHORE, March 3, 2009 (AFP) – The attackers who ambushed Sri Lanka’s cricketers near a Pakistani stadium mounted a sophisticated assault using rockets, grenades and guns before escaping in stolen cars, police said. Witnesses said the attack started with an explosion at 08:40 am (0340 GMT) as a convoy carrying the Sri Lankan national team […]

LAHORE, March 2, 2009 (AFP) – Sri Lanka continued to pile the pressure on Pakistan as Tillakaratne Dilshan followed up Thilan Samaraweera’s double century with a ton of his own in the second Test here Monday.Pakistan’s experienced leg-spinner Danish Kaneria was once again a major disappointment, conceding 174 runs without taking a wicket in his […]

LAHORE, March 1, 2009 (AFP) – Kumar Sangakkara and Thilan Samaraweera notched brilliant hundreds to help Sri Lanka recover from early wobbles on the opening day of the second Test against Pakistan here Sunday.Samaraweera followed his 231 in the drawn first Test in Karachi with a superb unbeaten 133 while Sangakkara scored 104 as the […]