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Cricket-England wait on security report to make India decision
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LONDON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - England's cricket team could decide by Monday if they will return to India following this week's attacks on Mumbai that killed nearly 200 people.

"Our security report should be with us in the next 48 hours and we'll be considering those, and subject to what those say we'll be acting upon them," England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) managing director Hugh Morris said on Saturday.

England are scheduled to play the first of two tests against India on Dec. 11 in Ahmedabad while the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has shifted the second test, due to be played from Dec. 19-23, from Mumbai to the southern city of Chennai.

"Clearly it's a very short time-scale and...assuming that safety and security is okay we would be potentially returning in quite a short time scale. So obviously there is a lot of work to be done in the next few days," Morris told a news conference at Heathrow airport after the team arrived back from India.

(Editing by Ken Ferris)




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