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Dec 30th, 2004:
The
Sri Lankan cricket team today abandoned their
tour of New Zealand, announcing they will return
home to help victims of the tsunami that has
devastated their island.
New Zealand Cricket's board has accepted a
decision taken by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) this
morning to postpone the tour. The two cricket
boards will work to reschedule the tour at an
appropriate time in the future. Sri Lanka lost
to New Zealand in the first of five one-day
internationals at Auckland on Sunday and were
due to play two tests in January.
Yesterday's scheduled second one-day game in
Napier had already been postponed to allow a
five-day period of national mourning after the
disaster that has killed more than 22,000 people
on the island. The teams were also to have
played tests at Wellington and Hamilton.
Officials have said none of the Sri Lanka
players lost family members in the island's
worst disaster in living memory but an English
newspaper reported the mothers of Sanath
Jayasuriya and Upul Chandana had been injured.
ICC Chief Executive Malcolm Speed said the
council was comfortable with the decision of
both boards to postpone the series.
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