Sri Lankan cricket circles have been buzzing over the past two days after a local website named a player who is alleged to be responsible for spot-fixing at the Indian Premier League.

Pakistanandrsquo;s new T-20 cricket captain Mohamed Hafeez yesterday threw down the gauntlet that his players made up the team to beat on their tour of Sri Lanka which starts in Hambantota on Friday.

Unable to reach an agreement over their annual contracts, Sri Lankaandrsquo;s cricketers could go into the Pakistan series signing what is called a andldquo;tour contractandrdquo; to safeguard a mere formality but in reality a virtual protest against restrictions that are to be imposed on them.

With just four days to go before Sri Lanka takes on Pakistan, a major upheaval has taken place in which the countryandrsquo;s top professional cricketers have threatened not sign any agreements to play while expressing fears their new contracts will make them kneel in front of their employer, Sri Lanka Cricket, like schoolboys in a classroom. andnbsp;

Sri Lanka will host New Zealand for two Tests, five ODIs and a T-20 match in October-November before heading for Australia for a full cricket series of three Tests, five ODIs and two T20s on December 3.

Left arm fast bowling allrounder Isuru Udana has been drafted into the Sri Lanka T-20 team that would take on Pakistan in a two-match series on June 1 and 3 at Hambantota before a grueling five-match ODI and three-match Test series.

Sri Lanka will enter ten youth sailors to compete at the Asian Optimist Championship to be held on the Trincomalee seas from June 2 to 10.

14 man T20I squad and a 15 man ODI squad

The Asian Athletics Association yesterday said that it would revoke a decision to cancel next monthandrsquo;s Asian Athletics Championships in Colombo if Sri Lankan officials responded to a letter from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

The 400m hurdles is the event in which Sri Lanka won her first ever medal in an Olympic Games. This was achieved by Duncan White 64 years ago at the London Olympics in 1948. After White it was Harijan Rathnayake who shone in the same event at many international arenas for Sri Lanka.

Sri Lankan Junior Athletic pool will begin their residential training programme from today onwards at Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium Diyagama. Special training sessions will be conducted to the 125 member Sri Lanka team targeting the upcoming Asian Junior Athletic Championship 2012 which will be held at the Sugathadasa Stadium from June 9 to 12.

Three hundred and fifty schools have so far confirmed their participation at the much-awaited inter school netball championship for the Milo trophy organized by the Sri Lanka Schools Netball Association (SLSNA) in collaboration with Nestle Lanka PLC for the 21st consecutive year.

Olympic silver medalist Susanthika Jayasinghe was yesterday named the manager of the 125 (64 male, 61 female) member Sri Lanka contingent for the Asian Junior Athletics Championships to be worked off in Colombo from June 9-12.

In a move aimed at bringing back the glamour and crowds at rugby, the Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union (SRLFU) has decided for the first time to work out the league tournament under floodlights at the revamped Havelock Park and Navy ground at Welisara.

Sri Lankaandrsquo;s rugby fraternity was in mourning yesterday following the shock death of hard-running winger Wasim Thajudeen in a car crash in the early hours of yesterday morning.

With everything that has happened with Sri Lankan athletics over the last five or six years, people have been discussing whether Sri Lanka could ever be competitive even at the Asian level, leave aside preparing athletes to match the Olympic feats of Duncan White or Susanthika Jayasinghe. andnbsp;

MTV and MBC will broadcast, the worldandrsquo;s biggest sporting spectacle, the Olympics 2012 probably alongside Sri Lanka Rupavahini and CSN, it was revealed yesterday.

India will kick off their five-match ODI series against Sri Lanka in late July in unfamiliar territory as the first two matches of their short tour is scheduled to take place at the Hambantota International Cricket Stadium. andnbsp;

Sri Lanka Carlton rugby Sevens organizers yesterday confirmed the participation of the worldandrsquo;s best known players DJ Forbes, Dan Norton, Frank Halai, Simon Hunt and Tomasi Cama among a host of others who will contest the event on May 26 and 27 in Kandy and again on June 2 and 3 in Colombo.

The Lawyers won the annual Law-Medical limited overs cricket encounter for the fourth successive year beating the Doctors by five wickets at the Colts ground at Havelock Town Colombo on Sunday.

The initial public launch of Sri Lankaandrsquo;s maiden T-20 cricket tournament was a no-show yesterday as local organizers failed to come up with names of the players who will contest it or the owners of the teams who will feature in it on the lines of the Indian IPL.

Sri Lankaandrsquo;s junior badminton team returned home from Perth, Australia to a lukewarm welcome despite doing well to win two silver medals and a bronze medal at the Li Ning Junior Badminton Championship last week.

Although plans have been drawn up to conduct the first ever Sri Lanka T-20 premier league known as the SLPL, organizers are still in the dark not knowing what to expect by way of foreign player participation.

Eight junior squash players will represent Sri Lanka at the Milo Junior Squash Championship to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from May 28 to June 2.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has named Mohammad Hafeez new captain of the national Twenty-20 team, but retained Misbah-ul-Haq as skipper for Tests and one-day internationals for the tour of Sri Lanka, PCB Chairman Zaka Ashraf told a news conference on Thursday

The first edition of SLPL Twenty20 will feature 7 Provincial teams which will adhere to a compulsory ruling of no more than 6 overseas players in each squad. However, it will be mandatory for each team to field only 4 overseas players in the playing eleven, whilst the remaining 7 players will all be Sri Lankans, with one player out of the said seven players will be an under-21 cricketer.

High jumper Manjula Kumara Wijesekera finished first but was five inches short of the Olympic qualification mark while the rest of the five athletes finished disappointedlyandnbsp;at the poorly contested Asian Grand Prix first leg in Bangkok, Thailand yesterday. andnbsp;

Sri Lanka emerged second runner up in the FIBA Middle Asia Basketball Championship worked off in New Delhi from February 24th to 26th 2012.andnbsp;

Sri Lankaandrsquo;s hockey players cut a sorry picture conceding as many as 30 goals in the preliminary round matches against Pakistan, India and China at the seventh junior menandrsquo;s Asian Cup Hockey tournament being played at Malacca, Malaysia. andnbsp;

Sri Lankaandrsquo;s newest cricket venue the Pallekele International Stadium that was commissioned for the 2011 World Cup played host to a crime scene when spectators at a big match between two schools clashed violently after one team refused to accept the result.