The team manager of Sri Lanka's Under 15 cricket team has said that the team was not forced back from Chennai and that it was his decision to return in view of the security briefing given to him by the local police. Speaking to the media in Colombo, Thushara Cooray, manager of the Under-15 cricket team that returned from Chennai clarified that the decision to return was taken by him and not because anybody in Tamil Nadu forced them to leave. <br/><br/>He said that the Indian police was very cooperative about the security arrangements. He said that in his interaction with the organizers of the tournament and the police it was felt that the young players will undergo mental stress because of the on-going political agitation.