Strauss' claim about no apprehension among the players found an echo in rookie seamer Amjad Khan who said he was not afraid of returning to India with the England Performance Squad.

"I think you have got to leave it up to the people who know the security and know the risk," said the pacer who is a member of the nine-man performance squad. Listening to them and returning was probably the best decision at that time. I didn't have too many quarrels about that," he told 'Sky Sports'.

"If it was up to me I would definitely go back, if all the security is in place and the ECB and people in charge feel happy," Khan said.

Legendary all-rounder Ian Botham too hailed the move 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.

"It's exactly the right attitude. It is common-sense prevailing. What went on in Mumbai was hideous and horrendous but the best way to address it is for the players to go out there and play cricket," he said.

Asserting that terrorists should not be allowed to dictate the game, Botham said, "We have had our own disasters over here. There have been atrocities going on all over the world and we can't give in to these people. We have to move forward."