Australian cricket team in Pakistan in 2007–08

The Australia national cricket team was scheduled to tour Pakistan in March and April 2008, to play three Test matches and five One Day Internationals. The tour was cancelled by Australia due to concerns about the security of playing in the country. Following the 2008 general elections in Pakistan, there was continual violence, and some of the Australian players spoke about against travelling to compete in the series.^[1]^[2]

Security concerns continued to trouble Pakistan's cricket fixtures over the following years: they were scheduled to host the ICC Champions Trophy in 2008, but this was postponed to 2009, and later moved to South Africa, while in 2008–09, both the West Indies and India cancel their tours of the country. Sri Lanka stepped in to tour Pakistan in place of India, but during that tour the Sri Lankan team was attacked by a masked gunman.^[3]

References

↑ Staff and agencies (11 March 2008). "Australia cancel tour of Pakistan". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
↑ "Australia postpone Pakistan tour". BBC Sport. 11 March 2008. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
↑ Cricinfo staff (3 March 2009). "Sri Lankan cricketers injured in terror attack". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 22 December 2012.

International cricket tours of Pakistan

Test and LOI tours

Australia	1956–57 1959–60 1964–65 1979–80 1982–83 1988–89 1994–95 1998–99 2002–03 2009 2010 2012 2014–15

Bangladesh	2001–02 2003 2008

England	1961–62 1968–69 1972–73 1977–78 1983–84 1987–88 2000–01 2005–06 2009–10 2011–12 2015–16

India	1954–55 1978–79 1982–83 1984–85 1989–90 2003–04 2005–06 ~~2015–16~~ 2019 2020 2022

New Zealand	1955–56 1964–65 1969–70 1976–77 1984–85 1990–91 1996–97 2002 2003–04 2009–10 2014–15

South Africa	1997–98 2003–04 2007–08 2010–11 2013–14

Sri Lanka	1981–82 1985–86 1991–92 1995–96 1999–2000 2004–05 2008–09 2011–12 2013–14

West Indies	1948–49 1958–59 1974–75 1980–81 1986–87 1990–91 1991–92 1997–98 2006–07 2008–09 2016–17

Zimbabwe	1993–94 1996–97 1998–99 2007–08 2015

Tournaments hosted

Multiple teams	1987 1994–95 1996 1997 2004–05 2008

Other tours

Afghan	2000–01 2011 2012–13

Bangladeshi	1985–86

Ceylonese/Sri Lankan	1949–50 1966–67 1973–74

English	1951–52 1955–56 1997–98 1998–99

Multi-national	1949–50 1961–62 1963–64 1967–68 1967–68 1970–71 1970–71 1973–74 1976–77 1981–82

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