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A day after TIMES NOW reported of a possibly security breach by Sri Lankan players in Kolkata before the 4th ODI against India, Tilakratne Dilshan was caught misbehaving and manhandling a photographer in the city. This shameful behaviour by the star Sri Lankan batsman took place outside a night club joint on Wednesday (December 23).

Pictures taken by a local newspaper in Kolkata suggest that both Dilshan and Sanath Jayasuriya are present in the night club, on the even of their crucial encounter against India at the Eden Gardens. After these pictures were clicked by the photographer, Dilshan reportedly chased him and caught him by the collar demanding the journalist to delete the picture.

On Wednesday (December 23) Sri Lankan cricketers Sanath Jayasuriya and Tilakaratne Dilshan reportedly breached security, after stepping out of the team hotel giving security officials a miss. However, rubbishing these rumours the team manager Brendon Kuruppu had said that both the players left only after informing the security control room.

Speaking to TIMES NOW Kuruppu had said, "Both of them informed me and the security control room before going out of the team hotel. They also informed the security manager of the hotel. They were accompanied by police officials wherever they went. All the players keep me updated about their moves. There was no such breach of security."

At the Eden Gardens on Thursday (December 24), the Sri Lankan players will be driven straight to dressing room during practice as part of heightened security following reports of Taliban-trained terrorists sneaking into the city.

A senior city police officer said that in a departure from the past, the players would not alight from the team buses at the main gate and then walk into the dressing room.

"The bus will head straight to the dressing room area. We have asked the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) to pull down portions of the outer wall to make space for the two buses to get in," he said.