On Tuesday, Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) vice-president Mahim Verma has criticised Pakistan Cricket Board’s chairman Ehsan Mani and told that he should worry about their security in his own country first.

“They should look at security in their own country first and think about it first. We are capable enough to handle our country and security here,” Verma told ANI.

“We have proved that Pakistan is safe, if someone isn’t coming then they should prove that it’s unsafe. At this time, India is a far greater security risk than Pakistan,” cricketpakistan.com.pk quoted Mani as saying. “No one should now doubt security arrangements in Pakistan after successful Sri Lanka Test series. This is a turning point for the revival of Test cricket in Pakistan. Media and fans played an important role in portraying a positive image of Pakistan worldwide,” he added.

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Test cricket returned to Pakistan after a decade and they managed to register a win in front of their home crowd after almost ten years when Sri Lanka went to play the limited-overs series in Pakistan earlier this year, few of the big players including Lasith Malinga, Niroshan Dickwella etc. had opted out due to security reasons. The ten players were — Lasith Malinga, Niroshan Dickwella, Kusal Janith Perera, Dhananjaya De Silva, Thisara Perera, Akila Dhananjaya, Angelo Mathews, Suranga Lakmal, Dinesh Chandimal and Dimuth Karunaratne. Although the visitors had lost the ODI series by 0-2, they won the T20I series by 3-0.

In 2009, Sri Lanka was on their way to Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore for a Test match with Pakistan, when terrorists attacked at their bus. That attack left eight people dead and injured seven Sri Lankan players and staff as well. Since then, international cricket board had stopped sending their teams to Pakistan too.