Former Pakistan coach Geoff Lawson has criticised England's decision to abandon their tour of India due to security fears.
England last week abandoned the final two meaningless matches of their one-day series, already won by India, in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai.
The plan isfor England to return to the sub-continent for a two-match Test series beginning on December 11 but some players have reportedly already decided they will not return to India.
Lawson slammed the decision on Sydney radio station 2KY on Monday, saying the move smacked of double standards.
"It's interesting that England are heading home and certain players don't want to play the Test series and yet we go back to 2005, bombs went off in London while there was a big series on there and it didn't affect one iota the cricket," the former Test paceman said.
"I think a few of the England players should reflect on what happened in their country before they start pulling out of cricket matches in India."
Lawson, who has previously advocated teams touring the troubled nation of Pakistan and was a critic of the decision to suspend this year's Champions Trophy, said allowing terrorists to dictate world cricket schedules gave them exactly what they desired.
"If you stop events that aren't particularly and directly threatened you're just succumbing to terrorism and they succeed," Lawson said.
"So far, the facts are, no sporting event, let alone a cricket event, has ever been threatened.
"There's no guarantees and you can never say never but what are you going to do? Are you just going to say "that's it, where there's terrorism we just won't go there on holidays, we won't do anything" and that will be one huge victory for these people, and that is exactly what you don't want."
Lawson said moving the 2011 World Cup, set to be hosted jointly by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, wouldn't remove the threat of a terrorist attack on the tournament.
"No matter where you hold that event in the cricket world it could be open to terrorism," Lawson said.
"Whether it's going to be Christchurch or Alice Springs, it's not really going to matter. If they (terrorists) want to do something they'll find a way."
