We have finally got there!!!

After spending the last 72 hours consulting security advisers and Government agencies at the highest level, the ECB has determined that England will leave for Abu Dhabi on Thursday (So that means they'll be fueled up for India, because all they'll be drinking is Fuel) . Yesterday Hugh Morris, Managing Director England Cricket said to the player that the tour will be going ahead because that the security was good. Well he said somert on the lines of that.The England test squad will practice in Abu Dhabi with nine members of the England Performance Squad and will fly on to India early next week for the two Test matches in Chennai and Mohali if the security recommendations have been implemented (Put into place) .Ryan Sidebottom, who was named in England’s original 15 man tour party, has been ruled out of the series with a side injury. Stuart Broad will miss the first Test having picked up a hamstring strain in Cuttack during the fifth one day international. He will remain in England for intensive physiotherapy and then fly out to Chennai where his fitness will be reviewed ahead of the second Test. The Test squad will be supplemented by nine players from the England Performance Programme Squad. England Test

Squad:

Kevin Pietersen (Hampshire) captain

Tim Ambrose (Warwickshire)

James Anderson (Lancashire)

Ian Bell (Warwickshire)

Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire) – travelling directly to ChennaiPaul

Collingwood (Durham)

Alastair Cook (Essex)

Andrew Flintoff (Lancashire)

Stephen Harmison (Durham)

Monty Panesar (Northamptonshire)

Matthew Prior (Sussex)

Owais Shah (Middlesex)

Andrew Strauss (Middlesex)

Graeme Swann (Nottinghamshire)

Performance Squad:

Ravinder Bopara (Essex)

Mark Davies (Durham)

Robert Joseph (Kent)

Amjad Khan (Kent)

Sajid Mahmood (Lancashire)

Samit Patel (Nottinghamshire)L

iam Plunkett (Durham)

Oliver Rayner (Sussex)

Alan Richardson (Middlesex)