Ponting responds to Ashes terror claims

"I know quite a few players feel there is an element of inconsistency about our decision to continue with the tour and I agree with that," Ponting wrote in his Ashes Tour diary. "If we were in, say, Pakistan or Sri Lanka and something like this had happened, I am sure we would have been on the first plane out. Countries like that have lost revenue as a result of tours being called off because of terrorist threats yet here we are, staying put in the United Kingdom after terrorists just didn't threaten to do something, but in fact detonated explosives in the city where we are due to play our next two matches.”