Islamabad, Jan. 26 : Pakistan's humiliating defeat against Sri Lanka in the last one day international has prompted the Senate Standing Committee on Sports to call a meeting demanding an explanation behind the defeat from the team's skipper Shoaib Malik, coach Intikhab Alam, and the Pakistan Cricket Board's (PCB) chief selector Abdul Qadir.

The Standing Committee on Sports has called the meeting on February 9 to discuss the Pakistan's debacle in the home series.

Dubai, Jan. 25 : Pakistan has slipped one place in the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship table following its 2-1 series defeat at home to Sri Lanka.

Although Shoaib Malik's team won the first ODI of the series in Karachi thanks to a brilliant unbeaten century by Salman Butt, it then proceeded to lose the second and third matches after impressive displays by the visitors.

That means Pakistan loses three ratings points and drops below New Zealand into fifth place on the table, an ICC press release said.

A blasting knock of 137 runs by opening batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan saw Sri Lanka mauling Pakistan team by 235 runs in the third and the final match of the series. With this win, Sri Lanka also lifted the ODI series by 2-1. This is considered as one of the worst performances by Pakistan against Sri Lanka on its home soil.

The final day-night international against Pakistan on Saturday saw Sri Lanka making 309 for 5 wickets with the help of makeshift opener Tillakaratne Dilshan, who struck a career-best hundred.

Dilshan, who is 32-years-old, impressed the onlookers when he made 132 runs for his second one-day hundred and shared in three important partnerships. Sri Lanka won the toss and opted to bat on a docile Gaddafi Stadium pitch.

In a significant move, Sri Lanka Cricket has announced that it has granted the worldwide rights to broadcast India's upcoming cricket tour of Sri Lanka to the Nimbus Sports International. The Singapore-headquartered global sports management company will also be producing the television coverage for the series which will be broadcast worldwide. Neo Cricket will air these matches.

Colombo - One police officer was killed and 12 other people including four schoolchildren were injured when a bomb affixed to a bicycle exploded in an eastern town of Sri Lanka on Tuesday morning, a police spokesman said.

The bicycle was parked close to the main police station in Batticaloa, 240 kilometres east of the capital and a remote- controlled device was used to detonate the bomb, he said.

Police said they believe that rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were responsible for the explosion.