NEW DELHI - THE remainder of England's limited-overs cricket tour of India has been scrapped and a Champions League Twenty20 tournament scheduled for next week has been postponed following terror attacks that killed more than 100 people in Mumbai.

England team management and Board of Control for Cricket in India agreed Thursday to postpone the last two ODI matches in Guwahati and New Delhi. India had already had an unassailable 5-0 lead.

Next month's two test matches between India and England in Ahmedabad and Mumbai are also in doubt.

The inaugural Champions League, featuring provincial champions from five countries, was later postponed to a date yet to be determined.

'We held consultations among all the stakeholders ... (and) it was agreed that in the best interests of all concerned, the inaugural edition of the Champions League Twenty20 should be postponed,' tournament chairman Lalit Modi said Thursday.

'We very strongly condemn this dastardly and heinous criminal act of a few which has resulted in the loss of precious lives and injury to hundreds. We offer our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families and we are with them in their hour of grief,' Mr Modi said.

As well as at least 101 dead, hundreds of people were injured and Westerners were taken hostage in the coordinated overnight attacks by terrorists in Mumbai, India's financial hub.

The England team had stayed in one of the hotels targeted earlier in the tour and had been due to return there on Dec. 16.

The ECB said its team would remain in Bhubaneswar, near the venue of its last match in Cuttack, for 24 hours pending further talks with the BCCI.

'The safety and security of the England team is of the utmost importance to ECB,' Hugh Morris, managing director, England Cricket, said in a statement. 'We have reviewed all our security arrangements in the light of these attacks and will be taking all necessary steps to ensure the safety and security of the team.

'The events of last night were deeply distressing and the situation is still unfolding. We are urgently seeking information from expert sources.' A high-ranking BCCI official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he isn't authorized to comment to the media, told The Associated Press that local authorities were still hopeful of salvaging the test series.

'It is an Indian suggestion that the one-day series be called off and England consider coming back to play the two tests later,' he said. 'This suggestion was made to the England team management in Bhubaneswar, and the England team has passed on the proposal to the ECB.' Australian and English provincial clubs had already postponed travel to India for the Champions League.

Australian star Shane Warne, captain-coach of the India champions Rajasthan Royals, was on a stopover in Singapore en route to Mumbai when he saw news reports on the terror attacks.

He said he will likely not travel to Mumbai for the tournament.

One of the luxury hotels in flames, the Taj Mahal, was where English side Middlesex and the Royals planned to stay.

'It's unbelievable, the place is chaos,' Warne told Melbourne's Herald-Sun newspaper website. 'We are heading to Mumbai and that (the Taj Mahal) is the hotel we are staying at. I don't think we will be going (to India) now - why would you?' 'It is just not worth the risk,' he added. 'No amount of money is worth the risk with what is going on over there at the moment.'

Cricket Australia halted the departures of the Western Australia and Victoria state teams, along with test stars Mike Hussey, Matthew Hayden and Shane Watson who were playing for Indian teams.

Naeem Gulzar, president of Sialkot Region, Pakistan's representative in the Champions League, said his team had no problems if matches were shifted out of Mumbai to Bangalore or Chennai.

'After last night's incident in Mumbai, cricket is now secondary and it is too early to say what will be the future of Champions League,' Mr Gulzar told The AP. 'It is highly sensitive issue.' Even the unofficial Indian Cricket League Twenty20 competition was affected, with organisers cancelling a World Series League between ICL Bangladesh and ICL Pakistan in the western Indian city of Ahmadabad. -- AP