The safety of the England team is the decisive factor in whether the tour of India can continue, says the PCA.
Test series could be cancelled
The safety of the England team is the decisive factor in whether the tour of India can continue, says the Professional Cricketers' Association.
In the wake of Wednesday's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, the England and Wales Cricket Board are in dialogue with their Indian counterparts about the future of the visit.
The remaining two one-day internationals, scheduled for Guwahati on Saturday and Delhi three days later, have been cancelled and the two-Test series that follows could also be called off.
"The safety of the players is absolutely paramount in this whole thing," Dougie Brown, cricket chairman of the PCA, told
PA Sport.
"The game of cricket is insignificant when people's lives are at threat.
"We can only judge if someone's life is at threat from what we are seeing and it is not a safe place for visiting cricketing teams to be at the moment.
"Is this just going to be in Mumbai? Who knows? The main thing is we have to look after the security of our players.
Safety
"Can the safety of our players be guaranteed? On the basis of what we have seen in the last few hours, no."
England have their own security experts as part of their entourage but Brown hinted concern among the squad for their own safety would be inevitable.
"We are just cricketers and simply get told what to do," added Brown.
"But the England players will be meeting and talking amongst themselves. I can guess as to what they are thinking about now.
"You can't be locked in a room in India for six weeks and, as we have seen, being locked in a hotel room might not necessarily be safe anyway."
Support
Meanwhile, the Barmy Army - England's unofficial supporters club - have urged the ECB to continue with the tour.
"It is worth remembering that just a few weeks after the 7/7 attacks we sat at Lord's watching England play," said the group's spokesman Paul Winslow.
"I only hope everything is done to try and make this tour happen, not just for our fans but for everyone in Mumbai.
"London did not grind to a halt in 2005 so why should they?
"The overwhelming point for me is that we are all intending to go ahead with our trips to Mumbai.
"There is an argument that if the fans can go, so should the players.
"This first decision (to cancel the one-day matches) would appear understandable, but I think the ECB should consider its position very carefully before thinking about cancelling the entire tour."
