COLOMBO, JUNE 10: In an attempt to keep off prying bookies, the Pakistan cricket team, which arrived here yesterday on a tour of Sri Lanka, has beep kept under a thick security blanket at the hotel with instructions to screen all phone calls before they are connected.The state-run Daily News, quoting the manager of the five-star hotel where the team is staying, said the hotel has been given strict instructions to follow certain procedures before the calls are connected.These procedures are being followed after a series of betting scandals involving top players rocked the cricket world where the bookies were found to be in constant touch with top players using mobile phones, the paper said.Five players - Wasim Akram, Mushtaq Ahmed, Waqar Younis, Inzamam-ul-Haq and Saeed Anwar - have already been censured by the Pakistan cricket board following allegations of match-fixing against them.Pakistan will take part in a three-Test series against Sri Lanka beginning on June 14 followed by a triangular series involving Sri Lanka and South Africa.
