That dark day came in the middle of the Champions Trophy, a terrorist attack took place on the cricket team in Lahore.

The Champions Trophy 2025 is now in its final stage. Now only three matches including the final are left in this tournament. Meanwhile, that dark day has come when the Sri Lankan cricket team was attacked by terrorists in Lahore. The terrorists fired heavily on the Sri Lankan team bus in which half a dozen players were injured. Police personnel and civilians also died in this. This terrorist incident that happened 16 years ago shook not only the cricket world but the whole world.

A test match was going on between Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

The Sri Lankan team was in Lahore to play a Test series with Pakistan. A two-Test match series was being played between the two teams. The first match was played between 21 and 25 February. The second match started on 1 March. After two days of play, on this day (3 March) 2009, when the Sri Lankan team was going to the stadium by bus from the hotel for the third day's play, the terrorists who were lying in wait made them their target.

6 players including Jayawardene-Sangakkara were injured

The masked terrorists fired bullets on the Sri Lankan team's bus. Apart from this, the terrorists also fired a rocket at the bus but missed the target. But in such a situation, the driver did not stop the bus and he kept driving the bus and stopped it only after taking it directly to Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium. After this, the Sri Lankan players were airlifted from the stadium and sent to their country. Apart from legendary players like Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara, players like Thilan Samaraweera, Tharanga Paranavitana, Ajantha Mendis, and Chaminda Vaas were also injured in this terrorist attack. Eight people including 6 Pakistan Police personnel were killed.

No team visited Pakistan for years.

After this terrorist attack, no team visited Pakistan. There was no international cricket in Pakistan for years. But with time the situation improved and now Pakistan is organizing the Champions Trophy 2025. But Pakistan was out of this tournament in just five days. The first semi-final of the tournament will be played between India-Australia on March 4, while the second semi-final will be played between New Zealand-South Africa on March 5. While the final will be on March 9