ENGLAND'S cricketers may refuse to play tomorrow's final tour match in

India if any more missiles are thrown in the one-day international at

Gwalior today.

Play could also be abandoned today in what is the fifth one-day

international after an agreement reached yesterday about what to do if

there is misbehaviour among the 25,000 sell-out crowd. England lead the

one-day internationals so far by three matches to one.

A meeting between English and Indian cricket chiefs, local police, and

the two match umpires produced a united front in how to react to any

hooliganism.

England tour manager Bob Bennett confirmed: ''There is now a very

clear chain of action which has been agreed if there are any

repetitions.

''The player in question will report the incident to the captain. The

captain will then inform the umpires, who would make the decision as to

whether or not the game should be suspended, or that the players should

leave the field.

''The captain has the authority to make his position clear, but if the

umpires are in any doubt about what to do, they immediately will consult

with the match referee, whose decision would be final.

''We have also been given assurances that there will be a cordon of

police both inside and outside a perimeter fence which surrounds the

playing area.''

Bennett would not be specific when asked if England would pull out of

tomorrow's match should there be any major problems today. He said: ''We

will cross that bridge if we come to it.''

But he did add: ''If there was any repetition of an incident similar

to the one involving Devon Malcolm, then we would have to consider the

position very seriously.''

Extra police will be deployed inside the stadium and around the

perimeter fencing to prevent a repeat of the trouble in the last one-day

international at Jamshedpur when a six-inch metal spike narrowly missed

paceman Malcolm.

Several England and Indian players were also pelted with stones, while

Indian opener Navjot Sidhu had to flee from his position on the boundary

when spectators started to fling tin scoreboard number plates at him.

After that match, England's management called for an urgent meeting

between the relevant authorities in Gwalior.

England want immediate action, especially with the World Cup scheduled

for the sub-continent in 1996. England's fraught tour of India is ending

in more tension.

Back in January, it was political problems that led to their players

being guarded by armed police in the hotel at Lucknow -- and then the

opening one-day international at Ahmedabad being called off.

Now there will be more than 500 police on duty at today's match, plus

more volunteer stewards to try to maintain crowd control.

England, as expected, have named the same 12 for today's match, with

Neil Fairbrother (bruised knee) and Alec Stewart (back) both fit again.

England team:

England -- R Smith, A Stewart (wk), G Hick, M Gatting, N Fairbrother,

G Gooch, capt, C Lewis, D Reeve, P DeFreitas, P Jarvis, D Malcolm, J

Emburey.

India have yet to name their final line-up, but it is almost certain

to come from:

Manoj Prabhakar, Navjot Sidhu, Vinod Kambli, Sachin Tendulkar,

Mohammad Azharuddin, Praveen Amre, Ajay Sharma, Kapil Dev, Kiran More,

Anil Kumble, Javagal Srinath, and Maninder Singh.