New Zealand Cricket has said that the upcoming tour of the West Indies will go ahead as planned. Doubts surrounding the tour surfaced after the New Zealand team fled Pakistan before the second Test last week, following a suicide bombing which killed 14 people and injured more than 20 others outside the team's hotel in Karachi.

The New Zealand players have been offered counselling to help them cope with the aftermath of the bombing which killed 11 French nationals and three Pakistanis.

Now they have little time to prepare for the tour of the Caribbean, with the first tour match being played on June 3 in Jamaica. New Zealand are to play two Tests and five one-day internationals in the Caribbean.

NZC chief executive Martin Snedden told Radio Sports that he saw no reason why the New Zealand team would not meet their obligation to tour the Caribbean.

"I am sure it will go ahead as scheduled," he said. "I haven't pressed the players too hard in recent days to require confirmation of their availability. But certainly ad hoc comments I'm getting from players are that they are very keen to go.

"They don't see any of the security issues that they'd see if they were touring Pakistan or the subcontinent.

"From the very brief conversations I've had with the players about this ... they have no thoughts at all of not wanting to go to the Windies.

"They've had a bit on their minds over the last few days and because of that I haven't pushed them on this issue."

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