Dilshan won't go back to Pakistan

Dilshan was on the Sri Lanka team bus shot at by militants in Lahore in March 2009 during an attack which killed eight people and injured seven membrs of the tour party.

Asked if he would ever go back to Pakistan with Sri Lanka, Dilshan -- leading the team in the first Test against England that starts here tomorrow -- told reporters: "I don't think so. It was a bad experience for me as a cricketer in Pakistan.

"As a player, I don't want to go through the same experience in the future. "My personal view, I don't want to go back to play cricket there."

The Pakistan Cricket Board announced at the weekend they had invited Sri Lanka to play three Tests, five one-day internationals and one Twenty20 game in a series proposed for October.

However, the invitation was turned down by Sri Lanka Cricket chairman D.S. de Silva, who said yesterday: "The circumstances, with regards to security, don't allow us to play matches there. Even the ICC (International Cricket Council) has not given us security clearance."