 Sri Lanka's players were evacuated by a Pakistani airforce helicopter
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Australia's one-day series against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates will go ahead as planned despite Tuesday's terror attack in Lahore.
Security will be stepped up following the attack on the Sri Lanka team bus which left seven players injured and five policeman dead.
Australia refused to tour Pakistan last year because of security concerns.
Meanwhile Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi says April's tournament will not be affected.
The eight-team IPL event is scheduled to begin on 10 April at nine venues across India, and features major players from all the Test-playing countries except Pakistan.
"The IPL will go ahead as planned and I don't visualise any impact on it," Modi said.
"We have already put in place several measures following the Mumbai terror attacks.
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"There is always a remote chance that it may happen and therefore the agency which we have engaged have based their plans on several unrealistic but possible incidents happening in the future.
"We are fully prepared and we are going to be making sure that we are on top of security issues on a day-to-day basis.
"The Indian government is also very serious about security so for us, its a very big issue."
The ICC are set to give their reaction to events in a news conference scheduled for 1400 GMT.
Five one-day internationals and a Twenty20 clash between Australia and Pakistan in the UAE starting next month were confirmed last week.
Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland said: "We're scheduled to play in late April, and at this stage that tour will go ahead as planned.
"We reserve judgment at any stage if we feel it is not safe for our team to be in a certain place, we will take appropriate action and the appropriate steps just as we have in the past.
"We have our own independent security consultants. We take the best advice we can from government and other sources. We won't in any way be stepping down, we will be stepping up in that."
Pakistan is one of four host countries for the 2011 World Cup, along with India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and Sutherland admitted that would now have to be examined.
"Needless to say, there would obviously be security concerns about Pakistan, let's see how that unfolds," he added.
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