Without Stephen Harmison, the team is already below full strength. Surely the ECB's obligation is to send the best team it can get to tour? This is why the decision in the end MUST come down to the level of the individual players. Only they can decide whether they are available or not. In all honesty (and without making this into too much of a theological debate, where I would not stand a chance at all!), I believe that moral decisions can really only be made at individual level. Commercial organisations and Governments are generally not all that good at that sort of stuff.

If I were a selector, acting as an individual and basing my actions on my own assessment of the situation against my own moral yardstick, I would refuse to select anyone for the team on the basis that, if I were to do so, I would be pressurising someone to undertake a tour which I would not undertake myself. By extension, I would not select anyone to replace Harmison (or anyone else who decides not to go), and I would not approach anyone who is not presently in the England ODI set up. If the numbers fall below eleven, so be it. I would let them go (if they still wanted to), let them play (if they still wanted to) and still be confident of my own ability to tell the ICC that we fielded the best team we could for this tour. And I'd be happy to show my face in public afterwards.