Nasser Hussain gave the strongest hint yet yesterday that the England players might take matters into their own hands and boycott next week's World Cup match against Zimbabwe in Harare.
Despite the International Cricket Council's continued insistence that Zimbabwe is safe, the 15-man England squad reissued their pleafor the game on Thursday night next week against the co-hosts to be moved to South Africa.
That would follow New Zealand's decision not to play their game against Kenya in Nairobi.
England players and their representative, the Professional Cricketers' Association managing director Richard Bevan, will continue talking to the ICC, the England and Wales Cricket Board and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
While Hussain said that the players would "wait for the procedure to take its place", he added: "If at the end of that no one has made a decision for us we will have to make the decision ... We have issued our statement about an urgent review and we are hoping that things are going on behind the scenes back in England and around the world."
Hussain added: "We want to know what people think ... There is no point going to play a game of cricket for England in Zimbabwe if people don't want us to."
The deadline for relocating the England game in Harare is Monday morning (NZ time).
