Pakistan's captain, Younis Khan, has expressed his exasperation at the allegations of ball-tampering that marred his team's crushing victory over New Zealand at Lord's on Saturday, and has called upon his critics to produce TV evidence of any alleged misdemeanours, rather than resort to innuendo.
Speaking in the aftermath of the 39-run victory over Ireland at The Oval that sealed Pakistan's progression to the semi-finals, Younis defended his star bowler, Umar Gul, who followed up his figures of 5 for 6 at Lord's with another superb spell of 2 for 19, and hit back at the comments made by New Zealand's captain, Daniel Vettori, who claimed after the Lord's defeat that he had never seen any bowler achieve reverse-swing as early as the 12th over of an international fixture.
"Everyone has his own opinion, especially when you get out cheaply and lose a game like that because New Zealand have a big reputation in world cricket," said Younis. "But for reverse swing you need pace and a good action, and Gul has a good action. It is an art, it is not cheating, and Umar knows the art, especially in Twenty20s. In every single game he performs like that."
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