That dark day came in the middle of the Champions Trophy, a terrorist attack took place on the cricket team in Lahore

Champions Trophy 2025 is now in its final stage. Now only three matches including the final are left in this tournament. Meanwhile, that dark day has come when there was a terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore. The terrorists fired fiercely on the Sri Lankan team bus in which half a dozen players were injured. At the same time, police personnel and civilians also died in it. This terrorist incident that happened 16 years ago shook not only the cricket world but the whole world.

Test match was being played between Sri Lanka and Pakistan

The Sri Lankan team was in Lahore to play a Test series with Pakistan. A two-Test match series was being played between the two teams. The first match was played between 21 and 25 February. While the second match started from March 1. After two days of play, when the Sri Lankan team was going to the stadium for the third day’s play by bus to the hotel on this day (March 3), 2009, the terrorists sitting in ambush made them their target.

6 players including Jayawardene-Sangakkara injured

The masked terrorists fired bullets on the Sri Lankan team bus. Apart from this, the terrorists also fired a rocket at the bus but missed the target. But in such a situation, the driver did not stop the bus and he kept driving the bus and stopped it only after taking it straight to the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. After this, the Sri Lankan players were airlifted from the stadium and sent to their country. Apart from legendary players like Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara, players like Thilan Samaraweera, Tharanga Paranavitana, Ajantha Mendis and Chaminda Vaas were also injured in this terrorist attack. At the same time, eight people including 6 Pakistan Police personnel were killed.

No team visited Pakistan for years

After this terrorist attack, no team visited Pakistan. There was no international cricket in Pakistan for years. But with time the situation improved and now Pakistan is organizing the Champions Trophy 2025. But Pakistan was out of this tournament in just five days. The first semi-final of the tournament will be played between India and Australia on March 4, while the second semi-final will be played between New Zealand and South Africa on March 5. While the final will be played on March 9