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Pakistan refuses to send Under-19 cricket team to Bangladesh

By: Our Staff Reporter | June 18, 2009, 6:20 pm |

PCB said Thursday it had decided not to send its Under-19 team to play a scheduled match in Bangladesh in October because of security concerns. "Pakistan declines to send its Under-19s to Bangladesh in October 2009 due to security concerns," said the PCB release, without elaborating. Bangladesh in March postponed the Pakistani national team's one-day tour of the country after a military mutiny in the country a month before. More than 70 people died in Dhaka when rank-and-file border guards turned on their superiors, killing at least 56 senior army officers, during a 33-hour bloody revolt in Dhaka in late February. Pakistan has also recently suffered a huge blow to its status as an international cricket venue, when gunmen attacked a bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team to a match in Lahore in March.