Timeline: cricket and terrorism
Updated on 03 March 2009
A round-up of some of the ways in which terror attacks and security fears have affected cricket in South Asia in recent years.
3 March 2009
Six Sri Lankan cricketers and their British assistant coach are wounded when a dozen gunmen attacked their bus as it drove under police escort to a stadium in the Pakistani city of Lahore. Five people were also killed in the attack.
27 November 2008
England squad breaks off tour in India after terror attacks in Mumbai, which kill around 170 people.
11 March 2008
Cricket Australia postpones a tour of Pakistan following a bombing which reportedly killed at least 15 people in Lahore.
8 May 2002
A bomb explodes in Karachi killing 14 people including 11 French naval engineers, while the New Zealand cricket team were touring. A number of cricketers were staying across the road and were preparing to leave the hotel for a test match. The tour was cancelled immediately.
24 July 2001
A New Zealand cricket tour coincides with a suicide attack by Tamil Tigers that closes Colombo's international airport, Sri Lanka.
At least 14 people are killed and 12 more wounded in the pre-dawn attack. The New Zealand team plays a match the following day under increased security
11 February 1996
Cricket teams from Australia and the West Indies refuse to play preliminary World Cup matches in Sri Lanka a week after a massive Colombo bomb blast kills 80 people and injures 1,200.
16 November 1992
A bomb attack by a suicide Tamil rebel motorcycle rider kills four people outside the hotel that the New Zealand cricket team are staying in as the players are having breakfast. Five players and the team's coach are allowed to return home on "compassionate grounds".
Additional material: Reuters.
