Overview
- Sri Lanka Cricket directed players, staff and management to remain on tour, warning that anyone who left would be replaced and face a formal review.
- At least eight players initially asked to return home after a suicide bombing in Islamabad killed 12 people and injured dozens.
- PCB chairman and interior minister Mohsin Naqvi met the visitors and assured personally overseen protection, with the team treated as state guests and guarded by army and paramilitary rangers.
- The remaining ODIs in Rawalpindi were pushed back by a day to November 14 and 16 following late-night consultations and logistical changes.
- The T20 tri-series with Zimbabwe will now be played entirely in Rawalpindi from November 18 to 29, after Pakistan and Sri Lanka agreed to centralize venues for security and operations.