Kevin Pietersen might pull out of the Indian Premier League on security grounds. The England cricketer is due to make his decision after talks with England and Wales Cricket Board officials and his IPL team, Bangalore Royal Challengers, after the fifth and final Test against the West Indies in Trinidad, which is due to end today.

The South Africa-born batsman was widely praised when, as England captain, he led his adopted country back to India after the Mumbai terror attacks.

But the attack on Monday last week on the Sri Lanka team bus in Lahore, which left eight Pakistanis dead, plus seven Sri Lankan players, an assistant coach and a Pakistani umpire, wounded, has heightened the safety fears of the world’s leading cricketers about playing in the sub-continent.

Pietersen was bought by the Royal Challengers for 1.55-million (R16.2-million), sparking a headline in the English tabloids the next day: Dumb Slog Millionaire.

“I will be consulting as many people as I can but if I don’t think it is right, then I will not be going,” Pietersen told the News of the World.

Source:thetimes.co.za