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England boycotting?

Agencies, Johannesburg
England have formally informed the International Cricket Council that they intend to boycott Thursday's World Cup opener in Harare - but cricket chiefs are still battling to save the game.
The ICC have not given up hope of the match being played as scheduled and are demanding a final decision from the ECB later last night.
ICC president Malcolm Gray, responding to the ECB's request for further security information, wrote, in a letter to ECB chief executive Tim Lamb: "ICC Development
International note that you are giving us formal notice that you are
unable to fulfil the scheduled fixture in Harare on Thursday the 13th February."
But the letter continues: "IDI and the United Cricket Board of South Africa require a final decision about whether you are going to perform your obligations under the agreement and play in the scheduled match on February 17 by 4pm (2pmGMT) today."
It was clear that the ICC were still trying to persuade England to fulfil the fixture despite their obvious reluctance to do so because of safety fears.
An ECB spokesman said: "We have not said that we are refusing to go to Zimbabwe, we have asked the ICC to move the match to a safe
location outside Zimbabwe on the grounds of safety and security."
Professional Cricketers' Association managing director Richard Bevan backed those sentiments, saying that processes were continuing.
Months of prolonged agonising have so far failed to yield a decision with England citing security fears as the key reason for their delay.
"We've bent over backwards to give them security information," Gray, an Australian, told the BBC.
"As far as we're concerned they really have to come up with an answer one way or the other by 4pm today (Monday)."
Earlier Monday, the ICC said it had received "new information" from the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) which it had passed on to Andre Pruis, South's Africa's National Deputy Commissioner of Police, the country's second highest ranking police officer.
They subsequently added they would be holding a 3pm (1300GMT) press conference at the Holiday Inn hotel in Cape Town where Pruis would publicise his findings.
Meanwhile, in a statement issued at the team's Cape Town hotel, the ECB said: "The ECB wishes to make clear that it was the ICC's own World Cup security directorate which was the source of the 'new information' provided by ECB to the ICC yesterday (Sunday) evening with regard to the safety and security of England players and officials in Zimbabwe.
"The information contained advice received from the Crime Intelligence Head Office of the South African Police Services, based on reports that had emanated from the South African Security Services and Interpol."
On Sunday, the ECB revealed the existence of a "hoax" death threat it had received on January 20 which said players and their families would be killed if the team went ahead with Thursday's match in Harare.
But the ECB have now exhausted all official attempts at getting the match moved to main
tournament hosts South Africa.
As Zimbabwe are opposed to relocating the fixture, England must either play the match in Harare or risk losing four World Cup points as well as incurring a fine for failing to honour their contractual obligations.
It appears now they are pinning their hopes on World Cup chiefs calling off the game and awarding both sides two points. But that would represent a huge U-turn on the part of the game's rulers.
Last month the players issued a statement voicing concerns about spectator safety as well as their own.
But adding to England's concerns on Monday was a British newspaper report saying South Africa were considering a boycott of their England tour, which follows on from Zimbabwe's scheduled visit, if Nasser Hussain's men refused to play in Harare.
A South African boycott could do massive financial damage to the ECB, 80 per cent of whose income comes from international match proceeds.
The ECB have repeatedly warned, in advance of the UCBSA threat, that withdrawal from Harare could cost them as much as 10 million pounds (16.4 million dollars.
The figure includes both a fine for missing the match itself and the cost of any subsequent cancellation of Zimbabwe's two Test tour of
England in the early part of the northern summer.
But, following that series, South Africa arrive for an even more lucrative five Test campaign with the two campaigns split by a moneymaking triangular one-day event involving all three sides.