2008 – 09 international cricket season was between September 2008 and March 2009 . The season saw the security concerns for cricket in Pakistan reach a pinnacle . The ICC Champions Trophy , scheduled to be held in Pakistan in September 2008 , was postponed to 2009 after five of the participating nations refused to send their teams for the event . In November 2008 , a Pakistani militant group launched terror attacks in Mumbai . This led to India cancelling their tour of Pakistan originally scheduled for January and February 2009 . Sri Lanka agreed to tour Pakistan in place of India but the tour was jeopardised by a terror attack in Lahore where gunmen fired at a bus carrying the Sri Lankan team , injuring six members of the team . The Champions Trophy was later relocated to South Africa and no international cricket were played in Pakistan for more than five years . This period of isolation ended when Zimbabwe toured Pakistan in May 2015
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International cricket in 2008–09