Lahore, Mar. 5: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has held the Punjab Government and security authorities responsible for the Tuesday’s attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team.

According to a source privy to the inner circles of the PCB, the board management had expressed its reservations about holding a Test match at Lahore following the wide scale public protest in the wake of the removal of the Shahbaz Sharif government.

It also had tabled an idea of organizing the match at match at Karachi, the venue of the first Test, or moving it to Faisalabad, but Punjab Governor, Salman Taseer objected to it saying that highest level of security would be provided to cricketers and other officials during the visit.

Hurman Baweja was shooting in New Delhi for Boney Kapoor-Anees Bazmi's It's My Life on Tuesday morning when he heard about the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan.

Friends after having shot with them for Victory , Hurman couldn't shoot until he heard from them.

Finally an sms arrived from test cricketer Farveez Mahroof saying, "We're all well. Don't worry. Thanks for asking."

Patna/Chennai, Mar 5 : Young cricketers here staged demonstration against the attack on Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan.

They in white uniforms raised slogans against the Pakistan Government and burnt an effigy.

"We are agitated over the attack on Lankan cricketers in Pakistan. We believe that cricket or in fact any game should be kept away from fear. But it is not possible in Pakistan. Thus, we wish that all sports activity should stop and all teams should refuse to travel to Pakistan," said Aditya Ranjan.

Islamabad - Pakistan Wednesday assured Sri Lanka of a crackdown on the gunmen who attacked the Lankan cricket team, as investigators grilled at least a dozen suspects to try to determine who was behind the attack that left seven dead.

Seven members of the Sri Lankan squad and their British coach were wounded, none of them seriously, when up to 14 gunmen ambushed their bus Tuesday at a roundabout near Gaddafi Stadium in the heart of Lahore, the capital of the eastern province of Punjab on Tuesday.

New Delhi, Mar 4 : Ex-BCCI chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday supported the Home Ministry''s proposal to reschedule the Indian Premier League (IPL) tournament, in view of security concerns following the Tuesday''s attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore.

Talking to the reporters here today, Pawar said , "The security for the Indian Premier League is not a cause for worry but the government''s view on the matter should be taken into account by the organisers of the Twenty20 event."

Islamabad - The Pakistani government has come under heavy criticism for slack security arrangements for the Sri Lankan cricket team that narrowly escaped death in a terrorist attack on Tuesday in the eastern city of Lahore.

Former players, opposition politicians, and even a federal minister termed the terrorist attack a serious security lapse, media reports said.