Former Pakistan pacer Shabbir Ahmed accused India of ball tampering within the fifth and last Take a look at of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy towards England at The Oval. Ahmed, actually, urged the ICC umpires to ship the ball utilized by India in Days 4 and 5 of the sequence finale for a ‘lab examination’. Ahmed’s response got here after India registered their narrowest Take a look at win by six runs to stage the five-match sequence 2-2.
Mohammed Siraj received an almost 80-over-old ball swinging each methods on Day 5 of the India vs England fifth Take a look at. So did Prasidh Krishna. Possibly not as a lot as Siraj did however he, too, received the ball to zip round. A lot in order that India captain Shubman Gill didn’t even consider taking the second new ball, even when India have been in want of the final three England wickets with lower than 30 runs to play with. And it bore wealthy dividends.
Siraj saved swinging the ball away from the right-handers and combined it up with fuller size in-coming deliveries to go away the England tail in tatters. First, he dismissed England’s final recognised batter, Jamie Smith, with an outwinger after which received one to dart again in sharply to Jamie Overton, the opposite in a single day batter, to entice him lbw.
After taking a few early wickets, Siraj and Prasidh actually utilized the brakes on England. Krishna almost received the wicket of Josh Tongue however the determination was overturned by DRS. Krishna, nevertheless, bowled a cracker of a supply to rattle the stumps of Tongue quickly after. In between, each Siraj and Prasidh Krishna produced quite a lot of wicket-taking deliveries on a pitch that provided so much to the seamers proper all through the Take a look at match, irrespective of how outdated the ball was.
Regardless of all of the pitch and the overcast situations, credit score should be given to the Indian seamers who gave it their all to make the ball discuss and get the final seven England wickets for simply 66 runs.
India accused of ball tampering in fifth Take a look at towards England
Pakistan’s former pacer Shabbir Ahmed, nevertheless, was not able to doff his hat to the ability of the Indian pacers. He, as an alternative, accused them of utilizing ‘Vaseline’ to take care of the shine of the ball even when it received outdated. The previous lanky right-arm medium pacer, who performed 10 Exams and three ODIs for Pakistan, utterly ignored the pitch, the overcast situations and above all, the craft of Siraj and Krishna.
“I believe India used Vaseline. After 80 + over ball nonetheless shine like new. Umpire ought to ship this ball to the lab for examination,” he wrote on X.
This was not the primary time a former Pakistan pacer accused India of tampering with the ball’s situations. Through the 2023 ODI World Cup, when Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, and Siraj received the brand new ball to swing significantly greater than some other new ball bowler within the match, former Pakistan cricketer Hasan Raza mentioned the ICC was giving India a “totally different ball.”
This was not the top of it. Through the T20 World Cup in 2024, which India gained, former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq accused India pacer Arshdeep Singh of ball-tampering. Mohammed Shami gave him a becoming reply.
