Colombo, Mar. 4 : In an article for the Telegraph, Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara writes that in hindsight every players in the team was just to naive to think that they would not be attacked by extremists.

Recalling the incident, he said Tuesday started as just another day in Lahore: a morning report to the fitness trainer to check our hydration levels, a quick breakfast and cup of coffee and an 8.30 a. m. departure to the ground.

Colombo, Mar. 4 : The Sri Lankan cricket team arrived home from Pakistan by a special charted plane on Wednesday, a day after getting targeted by terrorists in Lahore.

On Tuesday, around a dozen heavily armed assailants attacked the Sri Lankan cricket team''s bus and a police escort as they drove to Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium for the ongoing second and final Test. At least six cricketers were wounded, while six policemen and a driver were killed during the ambush.

Colombo  - Sri Lanka's cricket team returned home early Wednesday, one day after narrowly escaping a terrorist attack in Lahore, Pakistan with the team captain paying tribute to the bus driver for saving their lives.

The shaken team was welcomed at Colombo airport amid tight security by anxious relatives and Sports Minister Gamini Lokuge.

Islamabad - Sri Lankan cricket team narrowly escaped a hostage situation or merciless executions on Tuesday when masked gunmen, believed to be Islamic militants, attacked it in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, leaving six police officers killed and seven players injured.

The gunmen targeted a bus carrying the Sri Lankan players to Gaddafi Stadium, where Sri Lanka and Pakistan were to open the third day of play of their second test match. The police van escorting the team also came under attack.

London  - The president of the International Cricket Council (ICC) Tuesday described the attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team in Pakistan as a "sad day for the sport and for mankind" but vowed that the game must go on.

"On many occasions we have been told that cricketers would not be targeted in Pakistan. This morning's events have proved that to be incorrect. But cricket must go on, it will go on. It's a great game," ICC president David Morgan said in London.

New Delhi, Mar. 3 : Tuesday's ghastly terror act in Lahore in which seven Sri Lankan cricketers were injured has certainly confirmed that the Indian government's denial to grant permission to its cricket team to visit Pakistan was not a hasty step in the wake of Mumbai attacks.

The `commando attack' on the players proves that teams around the world were right on their part for not touring Pakistan, and also put forth a question mark on the claims of former Pakistan captain, Imran Khan that his country is safe for cricketers.

In an interview with Australian Television, Imran Khan had proudly declared that the game of cricket would never be hampered by militants in Pakistan because of the fact that Pakistanis love their game passionately.