India Tests

Not much chance of winning,but at LEAST they are there!

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk By Jonathan Agnew BBC cricket correspondent The decision to return to India is quite a result for the England & Wales Cricket Board. Together with the Professional Cricketers' Association, whose input cannot be understated, the administrators have put back on track a tour that seemed beyond salvation only a few days ago. England will receive a reception fit for heroes when they touch down in Chennai, which should help to ease the nagging doubts The players voted with one voice, underlining the team's solidarity and the deep respect the cricketers have for one another. But there will still be a great deal of tension over the next fortnight. The security will be both suffocating and, for Westerners, bewildering. The players will be confined to their fortress of a hotel, conveyed to and from the ground in a siren-wailing convoy and surrounded wherever they go by commandos bristling with weapons. England are hopelessly underprepared and have not played a Test match for four months.