Karachi, July 29 - The menace of match-fixing reared its ugly head again Wednesday with a media report claiming that Pakistani cricketers were approached by bookmakers in Colombo during the recently-concluded Test series against Sri Lanka.

Express, a mainstream Urdu daily, claimed in a report that some unidentified Indian bookies approached several Pakistani players during the second and third Tests against Sri Lanka in Colombo earlier this week.

Yawar Saeed, the Pakistan team manager, was quoted as saying by the newspaper that the incidents did happen but the team management took appropriate steps to erase any chances of further contacts between the players and the bookies.

'Yes we were told by some of the players that a few suspicious people approached them during the Colombo Tests,' Yawar was quoted as saying in the report. 'We lodged a complaint with the hotel management and they immediately shifted all of us to another floor of the hotel,' he said.

Yawar said the players have been strictly told to avoid such people and if anybody approaches them they should immediately inform the team management about it.