ECB faces demand for security official

The Professional Cricketers' Association has delivered a series of demands to the England and Wales Cricket Board, which include the appointment of a full-time security official to ease fears about safety on the forthcoming tour to India.

The demands are included in a report sent to all 16 members of England's squad for India and the England and Wales Cricket Board, who must satisfy the recommendations or risk the possibility of more players following Andrew Caddick and Robert Croft and withdrawing from the trip.

Compiled by Tim O'Gorman, of the PCA, who travelled to India last week alongside John Carr, the ECB's director of cricket operations, the report also calls upon a "senior ECB official" to accompany the squad throughout the two-month tour.

"The ECB still has a lot of work to do," O'Gorman said. "They must agree in writing to the various matters outlined in the report, and that in their opinion it is safe and that the tour can proceed.

"A senior member of the ECB must accompany the players for the entire duration of the tour and this ECB official must travel on the same planes and stay in the same hotels as the team.

"The PCA also want improved security for the team with either a full-time officer or a team of people employed to both protect the players and investigate hotels in advance of the squad arriving."