Michael Clarke, Australian cricket vice-captain is confident that his IPL-bound team-mates will receive good security advice from the cricket authorities.

Ilyas Kashmiri, a Pakistan militant with links to the al-Qaeda, has warned international athletes not to visit India for major sporting events like the hockey world cup, the third edition of the

Indian Premier League and the Commonwealth Games.

The Sydney Morning Herald quoted Clarke, as saying," I don''t know the exact detail on it, I only heard a few little bits about it this morning, but we''re in pretty safe hands with Cricket

Australia and the ACA (Australian Cricketers'' Association) making those sorts of decisions."

He further added," They have the people in place to make those sorts of major decisions. It''s a big decision and with the experience we''ve already had touring places like that ... the rest of the

guys will wait to see what the ACA and Cricket Australia come back with and make their own decision."

"It had no impact on me not playing in the IPL, for me, obviously being in New Zealand only for a couple of weeks and with the Twenty20 World Cup, I saw it as another opportunity to give

my body a couple more weeks off," he said the security situation on the sub-continent did not influence his decision to miss the IPL.

He said," In this country, we''re very lucky, we have the ACA and Cricket Australia, (who) look right into those decisions before they''re made. All the players feel confident that the ACA and

Cricket Australia will do that and then the individual players will make their decisions. There are a lot of places in the world you''d love to go (to) - if the people advising us to go say it''s safe to

go, then I''m certain the players will be over there." (With Input from Agencies)