We’re deviating quite a bit. The NZ team was ready to play, till their government got concerned about a very specific threat. No point speculating what that was. I can only assume it was more serious than the threatening emails that some people got. Can’t blame NZ for backing out in the circumstances.
The ecb on the other hand, was not aware of any threat. The UK govt was fine with the tour, as were the security consultants. So it was completely unjustified and a total betrayal of promises made to the pcb. Full credit to English journalists - all unanimously coming down hard on the duplicity of the ECB.