Umar Gul said "During our series against England last year I saw [James] Anderson was doing it (ball tampering). Against Australia, when they [England] won the Ashes, everyone saw Broad use his shoe to scratch the ball"
Alistair Cook did a straight counter attack on Umar Gul's comments saying "We certainly haven't tampered with the ball and if he did have any complaints he should have gone to the ICC over that". Cook spoke at London's Heathrow airport ahead of England's tour of India in which they will play one Twenty20 and 5 one-day internationals.
England are confident considering they won the ODI series 3-0 and won all the Twenty20 matches last month when India were touring England.
"Delivering our skills when 50,000 or 60,000 people are screaming and when balls are flying all over the place will also be a key factor, but certainly with this squad I think we can do something really special."
This will be a tough test for England to prove their credibility in the shorter from of the game and not just in the longer form and considering hundred of thousands of people cheering for India and millions tuning to watch this tight matches later this month.
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| Cook in a press conference in Heathrow Airport |
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