London: The England one-day captain, Eoin Morgan, has outlined the reasons why he is close to pulling out of the tour to Bangladesh, with two past instances of security problems on the subcontinent having left him increasingly sensitive when it comes to overseas safety.

Morgan and his teammates will meet Andrew Strauss, the director of England cricket, over the next 48 hours at the national academy in Loughborough, where they will be expected to state their availability or otherwise for the month-long tour that begins on September 29, when the one-day squad flies out.

Strauss has stated the detailed security plan in place for the tour, which was previously placed in doubt by the 1 July terrorist attack in Dhaka in which 20 hostages were killed, “mitigates the risk to an acceptable level”. However, Morgan and the opener Alex Hales are believed to be still wavering over whether to take their places.

“As an individual you need to be comfortable within yourself to be able to focus on cricket,” Morgan said. “I have been to places before when things have become a distraction and once or twice when that has been security. I told myself I would not put myself in that situation again.”

As well as the assurances given by England’s security director, Reg Dickason, Strauss will draw on his experience as part of the team that returned to India in 2008 after the Mumbai terror attacks when talking things through with Morgan, a player with a heightened awareness of security matters.

The first incident that informed his views came in 2010 when, during Morgan’s first season playing in the Indian Premier League for Royal Challengers Bangalore alongside a former England teammate Kevin Pietersen, two bombs exploded outside their home ground, the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, before a game against Mumbai Indians, leaving 15 injured.

Recalling the blast later, Pietersen said: “I was in the nets having a few throwdowns and the bomb went off literally 50 yards away. It was behind a stand just next to me. What a noise. We were told it was a transformer but then they cleared us all off the field and into the dressing rooms and we thought: ‘They wouldn’t be doing this for a transformer.’”

The match still went ahead after a 45-minute delay and a controversial players’ vote. However, an already worrying situation intensified when, contrary to security advice telling them to remain in the team hotel, the franchise decided to move the squad to the airport — only for the bus to become stuck in gridlocked traffic for more than an hour, with a minimal police escort and in full view of one of the bomb sites.

Morgan’s second such episode relates to a 10-day spell in November 2013 when he played for Gazi Tank in the Dhaka Premier League — one of the main domestic tournaments in Bangladesh — during political unrest in the country leading up to a general election. “Things were incredibly violent,” he said.

The 29-year-old has returned to play in the IPL and Bangladesh since, however, and will know that the levels of security afforded to the players for the upcoming tour of Bangladesh will be significantly greater than during those two previousoccasions.

While other players have already committed to the tour, Morgan has found deliberating difficult in the past fortnight while leading the side during the now-concluded limited-overs series against Pakistan. Speaking after Wednesday’s Twenty20 defeat at Old Trafford, he said: “Playing international cricket — or any cricket — is not about worrying about different things, it should be the best time of your life. It should be something you are looking forward to, wanting to do well in and are able to focus on. “You have guys who haven’t toured under circumstances like this before and I think given that nobody has toured Bangladesh since the [1 July] terrorist attack adds more to the decision.”