Lanka Premier League off until 2012

The Sri Lanka Premier League has been postponed to August 2012 after facing a series of problems.

After facing a plethora of teething issues, including the withdrawal of Indian players from the tournament, the SLPL has finally been postponed to August 2012.
Sri Lanka will have the five-team domestic Twenty20 league in its place, but that will not involve any foreign players.
It is likely that the decision to postpone the league, which was scheduled to start on July 19, was taken on Thursday at a meeting between the Cricket Sri Lanka's new committee and the league's organizers, Somerset Entertainment Ventures.
A four-week window in August next year has been identified as the best time to host the event.
The BCCI had refused No Objection Certificates to 12 Indian players - Praveen Kumar, Munaf Patel, Irfan Pathan, Dinesh Karthik, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Manoj Tiwary, Saurabh Tiwary, Umesh Yadav, Vinay Kumar, Manish Pandey and Paul Valthaty - after it was rumored that the tournament was organized by a private party which is close to suspended IPL chief, Lalit Modi, and based in Singapore.
Another major blow to the league's hopes of taking off this year was the dissolution of the SLC committe, that created the tournament, by Sri Lanka's sports ministry.