The ACA chief has dismissed charges by Former Test star Damien Martyn that the Australian Cricketers Association was applying double standards in assessing the security threat for the IPL.

Martyn was wrong in his assertion that because the IPL rewarded individuals and not national bodies, more pressure was being applied on them to skip the lucrative six-week tournament, said Paul Marsh, chief executive of the ACA.

Martyn wrote on his Twitter account that Cricket Australia-contracted players were more likely to favour skipping the tournament than retired freelancers such as himself.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports said that the former Test batsman also claimed Cricket Australia had made plans to evacuate the Australian team from the Ashes tour in 2005 after the terrorist attack in London.

He wrote," In a secret meeting CA said if one more bomb goes off we would go home and not complete Ashes, as history shows another bomb went off and CA said we couldn't leave. Why?"

Marsh said the fact Australia had skipped international tours previously showed there was no bias towards the IPL.

Marsh further said," The two are simply not related. We have got an independent security adviser, Reg Dickason, who we have used for 12 years and we have asked him to give us an assessment of the security situation in India and provide us with a recommendation." (With Input from Agencies)