Sources have revealed that senior PCB officials were told of a possible attack on the visiting Sri Lankan team in Lahore.

Reliable sources in the PCB told PTI on Tuesday that at least two senior ranking officials of the board were told by a senior police/interior ministry official about credible information that terrorists might try to attack the Sri Lankan team in Lahore.

The sources disclosed that Sohail Khan, a senior police officer with the interior ministry who has worked on the security of visiting teams including the Indians, had conveyed his apprehensions to the board officials before the Test series against Sri Lanka.

"But these officials surprisingly took the matter very lightly and no action was taken to ask the police to beef up security for the Sri Lankan team. They will now face the music for their laxity," one source said.

Interestingly, the home department in Punjab province had also sent a report to the government warning of intelligence reports that the Sri Lankan cricketers could be attacked while travelling between the hotel and the Gaddafi stadium.

But the Punjab government had claimed that the letter was received during the Sri Lankan's team visit to Lahore in late January to play the one-day international match.

Six Sri Lankan players and their assistant coach were wounded when they were attacked while heading for the stadium in a bus for the third day's play of the second Test which led to the abandonment of the tour on the same day. Six policemen and the driver of the van carrying ICC match officials were killed in the attack.

Although the government has not released any official report on whether there were any security lapses that led to the attack but initial reports have said that some intelligence agencies had blamed senior police officials designated for VVIP security for not doing enough to prevent the attack.