Doubt: Fabio Capello's England are due to play Holland on Wednesday

The India team, who were attending a function in Birmingham City Hall, were closer to the troubles and also returned hastily to their base in the Marriott hotel at the end of  Broad Street.

England’s players were not under any sort of curfew earlier in the evening, and several had gone out to meet friends in restaurants or bars near to their Hyatt Regency hotel, close to the Broad Street area of England’s second city.

But, at the first signs of trouble, the team’s full-time security advisor, Reg Dickason, got in touch with them and advised them to return to the hotel.

Captain Andrew Strauss and  vice-captain Alastair Cook were at a barbecue at Jonathan Trott’s house in the Birmingham suburbs but went back to the hotel on Dickason’s advice on hearing of the problems.

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