The Australian team will be landing in Sri Lanka today and the tour will go ahead as planned, after weeks of speculation and uncertainty.
Sri Lanka Cricket also confirmed that the white ball games – three T20Is and five ODIs – starting on June 7, will be played under lights.
The assertion comes at a time when the country is suffering from shortage of food, fuel and power. Besides those games, the teams will also play two Tests and the tour concludes on July 12.
There have been reports in Australia that players were reluctant to tour Sri Lanka on moral grounds if not for security concerns, because of the situation in the country.
But Cricket Australia (CA) said the Australian teams are looking forward to the tour which starts with a T20I series.
SLC secretary Mohan de Silva told Cricbuzz, “There is no disruption in the schedule and the white ball games will be night or day-night affairs.”
Meanwhile, it has been learnt that the fate of the Asia Cup in August-September will be decided depending on how the five-week Australia tour of Sri Lanka goes.
SLC officials are understood to have spoken to Asian Cricket Council (ACC) president Jay Shah in Ahmedabad and it was decided that the continental event can go ahead in Sri Lanka if the Australia tour is held incident-free.
The ACC will be following the series closely.
