Lahore 2009: Cricket’s terror attack 10 years on

Test Match Special

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🗓️ 3 March 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Trevor Bayliss and Paul Farbrace explain what it was like to be in the Sri Lanka team bus that was attacked 10 years ago in Lahore, Pakistan.

Islamist militants fired rockets and machine guns at the convoy as it reached the stadium.

Six police officers and two civilians died in the attack. Many in the Sri Lankan team, including Farbrace, were injured.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.9	Hello and welcome to a special edition of the Test Match Special Podcast.
0:09.2	Ten years ago today, the Sri Lankan cricket team were heading to the Gaddafi Stadium in
0:13.3	Lahore for the third day of the second test against Pakistan.
0:17.2	As the bus approached the ground, it was ambushed by around 12 Islamist militants at around
0:22.0	about.
0:23.0	Armed with assault rifles, rocket launchers and grenades, they opened fire on the team,
0:27.7	the police protecting it and the van behind carrying the match officials.
0:32.3	Six police officers and two civilians died in the attack with many of the Sri Lankan
0:36.4	squad injured.
0:38.1	No test cricket has been played in Pakistan since.
0:41.4	A decade on, the Sri Lankan coach Trevor Bayless and his assistant Paul Farbrace, both
0:45.7	now at England, tell the horrific story of what that day was like.
0:52.9	For the first time since the Munich Olympic Games in 1972, international sportsmen have
0:57.6	been targeted specifically by terrorists.
0:59.9	There was a major terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team but they were just half a mile
1:04.2	away from the stadium.
1:05.2	It was quite a sophisticated ambush.
1:10.2	A car we used, a grenade was held, a plastic was stopped and then three gunmen ran into
1:16.9	the street, fired up police ice skull in which the police officers were killed and then
1:21.2	spuried machine guns of the coach.
1:24.3	A rocket launcher was also fired, it's not only missed the blast, it was shown to get
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