Sri Lanka has raised safety considerations with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) amid the continued anti-immigrant riots in Britain, with gamers requesting elevated safety forward of its upcoming take a look at collection towards England.
Sri Lankan gamers already in England for coaching earlier than the three-match take a look at collection have requested their cricket board for higher preparations as they don’t have a safety plan earlier than your entire take a look at squad reaches London on Sunday.
“A lot of the points appear to not be near the place we’re however everybody continues to be just a little involved,” a Sri Lankan participant in England instructed ESPNcricinfo. “We are able to’t exit to dinner or do something like that. Principally we keep within the lodge. Nobody desires to run into hassle and get overwhelmed up.
“We’ve requested the board to attempt to ask for some safety for us till the principle workforce arrives, however we haven’t heard something again but,” the participant added.
Sri Lanka workforce supervisor Mahinda Halangoda mentioned he raised the safety points with the ECB after studying reviews of unrest in Manchester, the place the primary take a look at is scheduled.
“I raised the difficulty with them, and the ECB responded in a short time and despatched us their complete safety preparations,” Halangoda instructed ESPNcricinfo. “We’ll be having a safety liaison on the tour from them as effectively.”
In 2022, Sri Lanka was in the same place to England at present, when Australia and Pakistan raised moral considerations over touring the crisis-hit island nation for a bilateral collection.
The political unrest additionally shifted that 12 months’s Asia Cup to the United Arab Emirates.
Sri Lanka will start its three-match take a look at collection towards England on August 21 at Previous Trafford.