England were scheduled to play a Test match in Mumbai beginning on December 19.
England were scheduled to play a Test match in Mumbai beginning on December 19. Team's media relations manager Andrew Walpole had earlier refused to confirm speculation about the team returning home immediately, even as the England team management held talks with BCCI.
"We are speaking to Mr Srinivasan and we will wait before any decision is taken," Walpole said. "Let's wait for the meeting to end." Walpole also refused to comment on television news reports that England have refused to go Guwahati for the sixth one-dayer on November 29.
Guwahati had been rocked by terror attacks last month when more than 60 people were killed by blasts in the city.
The seventh and final ODI was in Delhi next week.
No one from the Indian board was available for comments. However, one official was quoted as saying: "This has been a terrible day for India but at the moment it's far too early to talk about cancelling England's tour or the Champions League," by a British newspaper.
England's High Performance squad, which is currently training in Bangalore, is also waiting for guidance from the British government on the future of its tour. The squad, which includes Michael Vaughan, Monty Panesar and Andrew Strauss, was scheduled to reach Mumbai on December 3 to play a practice game and train with the England Test squad.
Earlier, English county side Middlesex had cancelled their flight to India on Thursday for the inaugural Twenty20 Champions League after a series of attacks in the financial capital Mumbai.
Middlesex captain Shaun Udal told reporters on Wednesday the team would not be travelling as planned on Thursday.
"All we know is our flight has been cancelled in the morning," Udal said.
Meanwhile, Cricket Australia (CA) has instructed the Victorian and Western Australian sides, participating in the Twenty20 Champions League scheduled to begin next week, not to travel to India following the series of terrorist attacks.
The Victoria team was to stay at the Taj Mahal Palace and Towers, one of the two hotels that were targets of the deadly assault.
The terror attacks that left 90 people dead in the country financial capital, have put the ongoing tour of England and the upcoming Champions League T20 tournament in jeopardy.
Five suspected terrorists were killed in two separate incidents overnight including two during a gun battle in the country's iconic landmark Taj hotel, police said.
Little known Deccan Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for the terror strikes in e-mails sent to some media organisations.
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