colombo sri lanka the afghanistan cricket team might take a roundabout route to get to sri lanka for their scheduled threematch odi series against pakistan which is due to begin on september 3no commercial flights are taking off from kabul following the taliban takeover of the country and as per espncricinfo a contingency plan worked out by the afghanistan cricket board acb is to get pakistan visas for all the players and support staff get them to fly to pakistan first then to dubai and then on to colombo for the seriesamid uncertainties acb ceo hamid shinwari had said that the tour is going to be on schedulecricket is doing very well shinwari told espncricinfo earlier this week we are going to the office acb the cricket team is preparing for the pakistan series in sri lanka it is confirmed we are committed to sending a team to sri lanka as soon as possible there is a transition going on in afghanistan hence there is a vacuum in flight operations and availability is affected but we will fly out as soon as we find a flight we have our boys assembled in kabul and they are preparing for the serieswe hope the squad will depart in the next four days we have updated both the pcb and sri lanka cricket and both are on board i am thankful to slc for hosting us and that is really generous of themall three matches in the series will be played in hambantota and will involve a threeday quarantine period on arrival for both sideswith an eye on the current turmoil in afghanistan questions have also been raised on whether the team will be ready to participate in the upcoming t20 world cup but the afghanistan cricket board had made it clear that the team will be ready for action when the showpiece event gets underway in dubaiafghanistan cricket teams media manager hikmat hassan had told ani that there is no doubt with regards to participating in the t20 world cup and the board is keen to go ahead with a triseries involving australia and west indies to help in preparations for the showpiece event