{"id":409946,"date":"2026-02-05T21:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/409946\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T21:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:02:08","slug":"t20-world-cup-sri-lanka-ask-pakistan-to-reverse-decision-to-not-face-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/409946\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup: Sri Lanka ask Pakistan to reverse decision to not face India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sri Lanka have written to the Pakistan Cricket Board asking them to reverse their refusal to face India in their T20 World Cup group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fixture, the biggest and most lucrative in the global game, is due to be played in Sri Lanka&#8217;s capital Colombo on 15 February but Pakistan&#8217;s government has said the team will not play the Group A game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Thursday the decision was made to &#8220;support&#8221; Bangladesh, whose request for their games to be switched from India was rejected by the International Cricket Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bangladesh asked for their games to be moved citing safety concerns amid growing political tensions with India but the ICC said there was an &#8220;absence of any credible security threat&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were subsequently replaced by Scotland in the tournament, which begins with Pakistan facing the Netherlands in Colombo on Saturday (05:30 GMT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka have written to the Pakistan Cricket Board asking them to reverse their refusal to face India&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-409946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}