India, Aug. 7 -- Former Pakistan pacer Shabbir Ahmed accused India of ball tampering in the fifth and final Test of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy at The Oval. Ahmed, in fact, urged the ICC umpires to send the ball used by India in Days 4 and 5 of the series final to a lab for examination. Ahmed's reaction came after India registered their narrowest Test win by six runs to level the five-match series 2-2.

Mohammed Siraj got a nearly 80-over-old ball swinging both ways on Day 5 of the India vs England fifth Test. So did Prasidh Krishna. Maybe not as Siraj but he, too, got the ball to zip around. So much so that India captain Shubman Gill did not even think of taking the second new ball, even when India were in need of the last three Englan...