Middlesex delay trip after attacks

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The team were due to fly out on Thursday morning for the inaugural Twenty20 Champions League but Udal confirmed they were postponing their plans by at least 24 hours.

He told Sky Sports News: "All we know is our flight has been cancelled in the morning."

Udal understands the tournament is still set to go ahead but with the Mumbai matches moved to Bangalore.

Udal and his team had been preparing to fly out morning for the multi-million dollar tournament.

But he reported: "All we know is that our flights have been cancelled.

"We were due to fly out from Heathrow at 10 o'clock and we had a call to say that those plans were now cancelled, and the plan is to move the Mumbai leg to Bangalore."

With reports of the death count in Mumbai approaching three figures and broadcast pictures of the mayhem including a fire-stricken scene at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel Middlesex were due to stay in, Udal is grateful only that the timing of the terrorist attacks appears to have saved him and his team.

"What has made it particularly disturbing is the fact that we were going to stay at the Taj Palace Hotel 24 hours later," he added. "That's really brought it to heart.

"If we had gone out 24 hours earlier then that would have been the Middlesex team. It could have been us. That's what could have happened."