Glancing down at the paper lying on the table next to me I saw a picture of Kevin Pieterson, cross-legged and nail-biting, watching the England team security expert talk on the phone, and I surmised that these are unsettling times, when the issue of terrorism is the main story on the sport pages.

My thoughts developed on this subject as I waited, and depressingly, I ended up thinking, where next?

It seems now that terrorism can strike anywhere. Bali and The Maldives, in recent times have been the places most suprisingly struck by a form of terrorism.

A Pontefract team-mate, Christian Donelan and his wife Jenny were involved in the latter incident, but happily escaped with their lives despite a horrible ordeal, and just the other day became proud parents of James – an incredible moment after all they have endured.

India has always seemed to separate itself from terrorism, but having read more, this isn't the case. There were bomb attacks at a Delhi market in 2005, and again on a train in 2007, killing 187 people.

The cricketers must not feel safe and they can't be blamed for coming home.

Playing the squash tour means a lot of travelling, and as we often play in the Middle East, safety issues are a concern.

People at home react quite fearfully when they hear the next stop is somewhere in the Middle East, but on the contrary it certainly feels relatively safe – whether this means it is, I'm not so sure.

A couple of months ago, I switched on the news to see the Marriott in Islamabad, Pakistan had been bombed; people had been killed, and this hit the squash players quite hard as the hotel had been our place of lodging three times in the last few years at tournaments in Pakistan.

For this year's Pakistan Open, a majority of PSA players refused to go, unsurprisingly, despite the Pakistani Federation's attempts to convince the players they would be safe.

In 2003, six months after playing the Columbian Open in Bogota, the same squash centre which staged the tournament was blown up, killing 32 people.

Perhaps though, no-one is safe. Our own country must surely be at risk, and therefore we must press on, and hope not to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.