Legendary all-rounder Ian Botham hailed the decision to go ahead with the tour and said it would be wrong to assume that terrorism was only India’s problem. “I believe that if you don’t go then you’re letting India down. I think it’s a matter of us all standing together, it’s not India’s problem, it’s a world problem,” Botham said.
“India have bent over backwards, they’re desperate for England to go back, and I think we need to show some unity and hopefully continue life as normally as possible.”