Players of Bangladesh cricket team arrived at a hotel as policeman stand guard at the entrance of the hotel in Colombo on Saturday — AFP COLOMBO, July 20 (Agencies): The Bangladesh cricket team reached Colombo for a three-match ODI series against Sri Lanka on Saturday.
Bangladesh become the first team to tour Sri Lanka since the deadly Easter attacks in which 258 people died.
Bangladesh will play three One-Day Internationals on July 26, 28 and 31 at the Premadasa International Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) said in a statement.
Since the suicide bombings on three hotels and three churches by Islamist extremists, Sri Lanka has been under a state of emergency which gives sweeping powers to police and troops to arrest and detain suspects.
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