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England and India is monitoring the security situation in Birmingham in the wake of riots and looting in the city Monday night, but now tested Edgbaston should begin as scheduled on Wednesday.
"What we are concerned, there is no reason to think the match will not go as planned," said a spokesman for the ECB.
Opinion on the Indian camp, the team leader Anirudh Chaudhary, said: "That is linked in Birmingham All members of Team India tours are safe and accounted for the team management to keep closely monitoring the situation ..." Players on both sides were safe in their hotels as unrest spread in Birmingham.
"We expect this game to go ahead," Andrew Strauss, the England captain said. "It is for the authorities to decide if it fits the game to go ahead and we are focusing and preparing as we do normally. There are some exceptional circumstances, at the time, but we think nothing more than a game is to move forward would be a mistake.
"I do not think we are distracted by a lot of it. But clearly there are big things happening currently in the country, and say, but that would affect us very wrong. We're pretty isolated from it, and isn 't really affect the preparation.
"I think it's an opportunity for cricket can be a good factor for the new roles and demonstrate that not everything is bad there right now," he said. "We're going to divorce cricket match what is happening in the country which is clearly not our schedule of pride as a country fair at the time."
The BCCI top brass are said to be in constant contact with the management team and the ECB. It is understood, there is no alarm to be raised between the boards of India call their tour.
Several members of the Indian team was out to dinner, when the problems started early Monday evening and called at the hotel. They send Twitter updates about events they witnessed in their rooms. Some English players, and Posts Kohli had been presented to satisfy fans of the ECB one-day cricket-in-the-city program, Victoria Square in the city center. Randomly, vandalism began immediately after the program.
England are staying at the Hyatt Hotel in downtown Birmingham, near where the violence erupted. "To be honest, we have not seen much," said Strauss. "We saw police cars come and go, our security team advised us to stay at the hotel and I think it was wise enough, but we were quite isolated from it. It's never good to see these scenes on TV.
The riots and looting in Birmingham were copycat incidents after the events in London during the previous days. Vandalism was concentrated around the city center, with masked young men and women to go on the warpath in the early evening, the shops and the pillaging of property destroyed.
They started tearing mobile phones and handbags from pedestrians, followed by kicking, punching, breaking windows in shopping malls, banks, bars, restaurants, forcing people to close these businesses. Groups of two or three suddenly jumped and created an atmosphere of panic and fear. With the riot police were on the night the main streets, armored vehicles of the police and other cars scanned the roads, and a helicopter hovered general.
Mariott Hotel, where the Indians staying in, is located on Hagley Road Five Ways, one of the main nodes of the Birmingham city center, but a little 'out of the center. Edgbaston is about seven minutes from the 'Hotel. There were two policemen on motorcycles in front of the hotel Indian team last night, but there was no police presence this morning. Hotel security did their best to calm the guests and officials said the hotel staff, such as local police, have been tense all night after a long and tiring.
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