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Sri Lanka set to return to Lahore next month for T20
Sri Lanka will return to Lahore for a Twenty20 international at the end of October, eight years after gunmen attacked a bus carrying its players in the Pakistan city.
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Apart from a short visit by Zimbabwe in 2015, Pakistan has been starved of international cricket since the 2009 attack in which six security staff and two civilians were killed and six of Sri Lanka's players were wounded.
Subject to security clearance, Sri Lanka will play Pakistan at Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium on October 29 in the final fixture of a three-match T20 series.
The first two will be played in Pakistan's adopted United Arab Emirates 'home' after a two-test series starting in Abu Dhabi on September 28 and five one-day internationals.
The International Cricket Council has also given its backing to a World XI, led by South Africa skipper Faf du Plessis, playing a three-match T20 series in Lahore from Tuesday in a bid to help revive international cricket in the country.
The second test in Dubai starting October 6 will be Sri Lanka's first day-night match in the longest format.
Schedule:
Tests:
- September 28- October 2, first test, Abu Dhabi
- October 6-10, second test (day-night), Dubai
- October 13, first ODI, Dubai
- October 16, second ODI, Abu Dhabi
- October 18, third ODI, Abu Dhabi
- October 24, fourth ODI, Sharjah
- October 23, fifth ODI, Sharjah
- October 26, first T20I, Abu Dhabi
- October 27, second T20I, Abu Dhabi
- October 29, third T20I, Lahore
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