Carnage in Mumbai Left Us Terrified yet the Ecb All but Forced Us to Return to India ; Freddie Uncut [Scot Region]
Daily Mail › September 23, 2009
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Continuing our exclusive serialisation of his new book, ANDREW FLINTOFF reveals the England players' panic after the terrorist attacks during their tour of India last winter ... and how they felt pressurised in to resuming the tour later WE WERE going back to India, after our tour had been interrupted by the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, with so many questions. For starters, how many armed guards were we getting and how good were they going to be? The previous lot had been taking photographs and asking for autographs!
We wanted to know if these were going to be more professional. Instead, when we got off the plane it was like a military procedure.See the full content of this document
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Carnage in Mumbai Left Us Terrified yet the Ecb All but Forced Us to Return to India ; Freddie Uncut [Scot Region]
We'd had a security briefing. All the way through I was thinking how unreal the whole situation was. If you'd brought someone in off the street without telling them what it was about, they would have thought we were preparing for a war.
On the bus we closed the curtains on the grounds that you cannot be too careful. Lots of thin...See the full content of this document
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