The Sri Lanka cricket team toured the United Arab Emirates in September and October 2017 to play two Tests, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches against the Pakistan cricket team.It included the first Tests that Sarfraz Ahmed of Pakistan captained following the retirement of Misbah-ul-Haq.The tour also featured a T20I match in Pakistan, the first time that Sri Lanka had visited the country since 2009.On 27 September 2017, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) named umpires for the Test and ODI fixtures.[5] The second Test match was played as a day/night fixture, the first day/night Test for Sri Lanka.[6] Sri Lanka won the Test series 2–0. It was Pakistan's first whitewash in the United Arab Emirates, and only their second whitewash in a home series, after losing 3–0 to Australia in October 2002.Pakistan won the ODI series 5–0.Sri Lanka became the first side to be whitewashed 5–0 three times in ODIs in the same calendar year, after previously losing to South Africa in January and India in August.