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Friday, November 28, 2008

KP: England may not return


Kevin Pietersen has warned that England players will not return to India if their safety cannot be guaranteed.

The tourists fly to Bangalore later today to meet up with the Performance Programme squad, who will then join the main squad and return to London while talks continue between the England and Wales Cricket Board and the Board of Control for Cricket in India about the resumption of the tour.

Terror attacks have killed at least 119 people and injured more than 250 - with one of the main targets, the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, used by England as a base at the start of the tour and was due to host them again.

Doubts persist about whether England will return for the Test series, which was due to begin in Ahmedabad on December 11 and finish in Mumbai - although the venue for the final Test will have to be moved after the attacks.

And Pietersen explained today that there is no question of any of the players putting their security on the line.

He explained: "We need to make sure the security's right - but if it's not safe then we won't be coming back."

The captain continued on BBC Radio Five Live: "People are their own people, I'll never force anyone to do anything or tell them to do anything against their will.

"On the field I may ask people to do things in a certain way but people run their own lives.

"We'll have to see how the security is."

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