COLOMBO, July 19 (Agencies): Sri Lanka has reportedly agreed to visit Pakistan to play a Test match after the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) invited the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) authorities to send its security delegation to their nation.
Pakistan have not hosted a single Test on its soil ever since the infamous terrorist attack on a Sri Lanka team bus in Lahore in 2009.
As per reports, a Test series is scheduled between Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in September this year and the islanders are likely to play one of the two games in Pakistan, who are trying to host both the matches.
Meanwhile, Sri Lanka's sports minister has ordered the sacking of the national cricket coach after a lacklustre World Cup campaign that saw just three wins from nine games, officials said Friday.
Chandika Hathurusingha and his assistants would be fired after Sri Lanka's upcoming one-day series against Bangladesh, a Sri Lanka Cricket source told the news agency.
Sports minister Harin Fernando has ordered the coaches "should go after the Bangladesh tournament," the official said, adding that Fernando had wanted to make the changes before the World Cup.
Under-pressure Hathurusingha had insisted last week he would stay to see out his contract. "I have another 16 months," he told reporters after returning to Colombo from the tournament where Sri Lanka finished a disappointing sixth. "I hope to remain until my contract runs out."
Hathurusingha also acknowledged that team management had to "accept responsibility for what happened."
Bangladesh arrive in Sri Lanka on Saturday to become the first foreign sports team to visit the island since the April 21 suicide bombings that killed 258 people.
The series starts on July 26 and ends on August 1 at the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.
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