It took the Pakistan team bus around four hours to reach Taunton from London and the players disappeared into their rooms as soon as they reached the team hotel. They stayed there, deciding against coming down for dinner as media people surrounded their hotel. Security was pretty tight.
Pakistan will be playing a warm-up match in Taunton on Thursday ahead of the series-opening Twenty20 International in Cardiff on Sunday.
When they left their Swiss Cottage hotel, their limited-overs series was still in doubt following reports that at least four Pakistani players including their Test captain Salman Butt were facing suspension for alleged role in a spot-fixing scandal that has rocked world cricket.
However, following conference call between the ICC and its member boards, ICC president Sharad Pawar said that Pakistan’s tour of England, which is to conclude on Sept. 22, will continue in spite of calls from various quarters that the rest of the series should be scrapped.
"Police have not yet completed their investigation," said Pawar. "It is the desire of the ICC and the cricket boards of England and Pakistan that the game should continue."
Pakistan team officials and their one-day captain Shahid Afridi were scheduled to meet on Monday night in Taunton to decide whether to retain the four accused players – Salman Butt, Kamran Akmal, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir – or replace them ahead of the limited-overs series.
Earlier, when Pakistan left London for Taunton in their team bus, several angry protesters raised slogans against players accused of accepting bribes from bookmakers.
Meanwhile, Somerset chief executive Richard Gould said that the county might request for extra security for Pakistan’s practice match against Somerset in Taunton on Sept. 2.
Gould said that Pakistan will have their practice session on Wednesday.
 

AP adds: The International Cricket Council has promised to take “prompt and decisive action” against any Pakistan player found guilty of fixing or manipulating matches.
The ICC said Monday that its Anti-Corruption and Security Unit is investigating newspaper allegations that fixing is endemic in Pakistan matches up to and including its current tour of England.
“The integrity of the game is of paramount importance,” ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat said. “Prompt and decisive action will be taken against those who seek to harm it.
“However, the facts must first be established through a thorough investigation and it is important to respect the right of due process when addressing serious allegations of this sort.” Pakistan cricket is in crisis after British police started investigating allegations by a British tabloid that two of its players deliberately bowled no-balls against England last week in exchange for money.
Individuals in illegal betting hubs allegedly have that information passed on to them so they can bet on a sure thing.
There is no suggestion that the players' actions affected the scale of Pakistan's defeat — its heaviest in 58 years of test cricket — any player found guilty of colluding with bookmakers to manipulate the result could be banned for life.
Pakistan lost the series 3-1 after going down by an innings and 225 runs on Sunday.
“The International Cricket Council, England and Wales Cricket Board and Pakistan Cricket Board are committed to a zero-tolerance approach to corruption in cricket,” Lorgat said. “All allegations of betting irregularities or fixing of matches or incidents within matches are investigated thoroughly.” The sting operation by an undercover newspaper reporter has also led to a rekindling of suspicion that the result of Pakistan's defeat to Australia in Sydney in January was fixed.
Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the country's highest law enforcement agency had sent a three-man delegation to London.
“Scotland Yard is doing its own investigations,” Malik said. “Our team is there to assist them and also independently find out what has happened.”
Former ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed said he thinks a ban from cricket for the Pakistan team may be in order.
Speed, an Australian who headed the ICC from 2001-2008, says he is concerned by what “looks a fairly compelling case” of rigged betting.
“I think that's (suspension) an option. It's serious,” Speed told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.
Pakistan parliamentarian Iqbal Mohammad Ali, who also heads the lower house's standing committee on sports, called for the players in question to be fired from the team ahead of the upcoming limited-overs games against England.
“Whosoever is involved should be banned for life,” he said. “All those who are suspected should be sent back home.”