Due to heavy rain in Dharamsala, the Sri Lankan cricket team was left stranded in the hill town, ahead of the second One-day International against India. The visiting side’s chartered plane could not take off for Mohali, the venue for the next

Pakistan comfortably won the fifth ODI against Sri Lanka by nine wickets, completing a 5-0 whitewash in Sharjah on Monday and marking their ninth consecutive victory in the format.

Driver Meher Muhammad Khalil became a hero when militants attacked the Sri Lankan cricket team bus on a busy street in Lahore in 2009, holding his nerve under gunfire to whisk them to safety.