Geoff Lawson said England’s decision to abandon the India tour due to security fears, smacked of double standards.
“It’s interesting that England are heading home and certain players don’t want to play the Test series and yet we go back to 2005, bombs went off in London while there was a big series on there and […]
National selector Geoff Miller has admitted England’s players with a “sense of fear” should not resume their tour of India.
Miller has spent the day liaising with officials from the England and Wales Cricket Board, who have been in talks with security advisers both at home and in India to determine whether it is safe for […]
England have been offered a revised schedule for their tour of India but will await a security report before making any decision.
The England and Wales Cricket Board has said players will not be forced to go following the terror attacks in Mumbai.
Indian cricket bosses say the ECB has agreed to the Ahmedabad and Mumbai Tests […]
England will return to India to play their two-match Test series as per schedule, but without several senior players.
Following the terror attack on Mumbai, Flintoff and fast bowler Steve Harmison and perhaps another bowler in the squad of 15, are expected to pull out in the next two days, citing their children and wives as […]
England’s cricketers will not be forced to return to India for the two-Test series, Hugh Morris, the ECB’s managing director for England cricket, said as the squad arrived back in London on Saturday evening.
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, Morris said the England team was committed to returning to India if it […]
Kevin Pietersen has admitted that he still has a burning desire to succeed in India should they resume their tour.
The England squad have made the decision to temporarily suspend the tour in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, which have killed well over 100 people and injured hundreds more.
The future of the tour […]
The fate of England’s Test tour to India lies in the hands of the players themselves, according to their captain, Kevin Pietersen, as the team prepares to fly home from the country in the wake of the terrorist atrocities that have rocked Mumbai over the past two days.
Officials from both England and India are adamant […]
The BCCI has shifted the second Test between India and England to Chennai, following Wednesday’s terrorist strikes in Mumbai. The Indian board’s announcement is a reiteration of their unequivocal stand of Thursday, when Lalit Modi, a vice-president and head of its fixtures committee, said the series would go ahead.
The ECB has said that it was […]
England have decided to fly home from their tour of India but remain committed to returning for the Test series.
Following a series of meetings at their hotel in Bhubaneswar today the tourists have elected to fly home tomorrow with a view to returning for the first Test in Ahmedabad on December 11.
Hugh Morris, managing director […]
Expert cricket commentator Harsha Bhogle feels England were right in their decision to go home after the Mumbai terror attacks.
Serial bomb blasts ripped through the city of Mumbai late Wednesday, killing more than 100 people and imjuring more than 200. England met with BCCI officials on Thursday and decided to call off the ongoing tour. […]
Kevin Pietersen, the England captain, has said he had never felt as angry as he did after his team’s fifth successive loss to India. England have lost the seven-match series with two games to go.
“I was pretty angry when I got back to the dressing room,” Pietersen, who is leading England in a full series […]
England have cut short the ongoing one-day series against India following Wednesday’s terrorist strikes in Mumbai but Lalit Modi, the head of the BCCI’s fixtures committee, said the two-Test series would go ahead. The ECB, he said, had agreed to this decision.
“The Test series will go ahead, and there is no problem with that,” Modi […]