England to resume tour in UAE

England players will fly into Abu Dhabi on Thursday to play a warm-up game and prepare for the two-Test series in India.
The National newspaper in Abu Dhabi claims England will train and play a warm-up game at the Abu Dhabi Cricket Club, citing sources at the club.
The report claims the team will then fly on to Chennai ahead of the first Test which is due to start on December 11 but had been in doubt after the team returned home following last week's terrorist attacks in Mumbai.
"It is a big honour for Abu Dhabi," the source told the newspaper.
"It is an extremely safe environment and we want to make sure that the players feel safe too, but we will be taking nothing for granted and security will be very tight."
Talks continued today between the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and various security agencies.
England's one-day squad returned home on Saturday while security reports were assessed on the threat to the team if they return for the two-Test series.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) have already changed the itinerary to reassure the tourists, with the first Test moved to Chennai from Ahmedabad while the second Test has been moved from Mumbai to Mohali.
Security consultant Reg Dickason, who has acted as an advisor to the team for several years, has already flown out to Chennai and will assess the city in the next 24 hours before heading on to Mohali.
During his stay he will also relay the ECB's numerous security requests should they return.
Legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar, who was born in Mumbai and has a restaurant very close to the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel - one of the main targets of the terrorist attacks - has revealed he could not sleep when news first came through of the incidents.
Tendulkar, like the rest of the India and England players, was told the horrific news when they returned to their hotel in Bhubaneswar immediately after the fifth one-day international in Cuttack.
"Right after the match, we got to know of the attack and since then I have been disturbed," Tendulkar told the Times of India newspaper.
"I have been tracking the horrific images of mayhem on television. It saddened me to see my countrymen being targeted.
"I couldn't sleep all this time. I am numb, the images keep playing in my head. This was just not an attack on Mumbai - it is an attack on India."
Meanwhile, international player representatives have lifted security on the subcontinent to the top of their agenda as England continue to assess whether to resume their tour of India.
The Federation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA) will discuss player safety at their executive meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, between December 9 and 12.
Although it was a subject previously on the list for discussion, it is now the number one area for debate, following the predicament faced by the England team this week.
FICA intend to formulate a procedure for future similar scenarios to the one England were faced with last week and hope their framework will be acceptable to all the game's major stakeholders.
"We are obviously concerned about the situation," FICA chief executive Tim May told PA Sport.
"On the other hand we are also concerned about the health of the game, both in places like Pakistan and India, and the rest of the world.
"It is a world significantly different now to what it was 15 years ago because of the threat of terrorism.
"So we need to discuss to what extent we will accept that the level of threat has increased.
"There needs to be an acceptance that there will be a risk wherever you play in the cricket world and to protect the players as best you can.
"The difficult part of the issue is 'when is it too risky?' Because that is an unknown and only security experts can tell us."
The International Cricket Council's global events such as the Champions Trophy and World Cup - both scheduled to be held in the subcontinent inside the next two-and-a-half years - generate the revenues distributed to dozens of associate and affiliate countries.
So putting a definitive framework in place agreeable to international players, full member countries, tournaments such as the Indian Premier League and ICC would, FICA believe, serve the good of the sport.
"What we aim to do is decide upon a process that all parties will be involved in, where all parties can get together and work through to a solution - that is the umbrella objective of the discussions," May added.
"There is no doubt what has happened in the last week has given the issue greater prominence.
"This issue was listed in our agenda three weeks ago but has been escalated by the significance of the Mumbai attacks.
"Whereas in Pakistan, westerners might have been the target in the past, that was not the case in India.
"Now things have changed significantly, I suggest, with Americans in particular, and British singled out."