Team India will be guarded by elite National Security Guard commandos in
West Indies during the World Cup Cricket because security arrangements
in the Carribean Islands were considered not up to the mark. 
The government took a decision in this regard after West Indian
officials conveyed through diplomatic channels about their inability to provide
elaborate security to the 15-member team, sources said. Some players of the
team have been facing threats from Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Taiba.
The NSG team would also comprise bomb detection and disposal
experts and were scheduled to leave for West Indies soon. Two senior security
experts from the Ministry of Home Affairs would be overseeing the arrangements
there, the sources said.
The team led by Rahul Dravid, along with Coach Greg
Chappel, and BCCI officials, have left for West Indies on Wednesday night.
Security officials who accompanied Vice President Bhairon
Singh Shekhawat during his visit to West Indies during November 9-11 had
also conveyed to the government about the lax security in West Indies, the sources
said.
This is for the first time that the NSG commandos would be
sent for the security of Indian team anywhere outside the country.
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