Pietersen: 'We need security guarantees'
Updated on 28 November 2008
Kevin Pietersen has warned that England players will not return to India if their safety can not be guaranteed.
The tourists are flying to Bangalore to meet up with the Performance Programme squad, who will then join the main squad and return to London on Saturday evening as talks continue between the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) 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 that there is no question of any of the players putting their security on the line: "We need to make sure the security's right - but if it's not safe then we won't be coming back.
"People are their own people, I'll never force anyone to do anything or tell them to do anything against their will. We'll have to see how the security is."
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