Ind-Eng ODI series scrapped, Test series will go on

The ECB in a statement said the English team, which is now in Bhubaneswar, will fly back home on Friday but will come back to play the Test series.

The remainder of England’s ODI cricket series against India was scrapped on Thursday following the terror attacks in Mumbai which also prompted the organisers of the USD six-million Champions League to postpone the high-profile Twenty20 event.

However, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) confirmed that it has given assurances to the BCCI to return to India and play the two-match Test series starting on December 11.

The ECB in a statement said the English team, which is now in Bhubaneswar, will fly back home on Friday but will come back to play the Test series.

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“The ECB have announced that England will fly back to London tomorrow in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. But both the ECB and the BCCI have made assurances that the two Test matches will go ahead,” the statement said.

“The BCCI are endeavouring to find an alternative southern venue for the second Test,” the ECB statement added.

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