The ICC have promised to give a written response tomorrow to the ECB over their request to move England’s World Cup opener from Zimbabwe.

ECB chief executive Tim Lamb said in a press conference that talks had been held with ICC officials on Monday evening.

The ECB and the England players want Thursday’s game in Harare moved from Zimbabwe following death threats made by a group called the Sons and Daughters of Zimbabwe.

But research by Deputy National Commissioner of South African Police Andre Pruis into the death-threat letter concluded that the group was unlikely to exist and that it was most probably the work of a single individual.

The ICC therefore want the match to go ahead as scheduled.

Lamb said: “During the course of the meeting with Malcolm Speed (ICC chief executive) the ICC recognised the need to make a further written response to the ECB, which they promised to do tomorrow morning.”