England skipper Michael Vaughan has apologised to Team India pacer
Zaheer Khan for the jelly bean prank during the second cricket Test here
but insisted that the incident had been blown out of proportion.
"I guess one of the guys might have left them as a prank for the new batsmen.
If that offended Zaheer, I apologise," Vaughan was quoted as saying by the
'Daily Telegraph'.
Vaughan, however, refuted Zaheer's claims that the jelly beans
had been thrown by the slip fielders to insult him.
"We weren't throwing jelly beans from the slip cordon. Two jelly beans
were left on the floor by the stumps during the drinks interval when the wicket
fell," he said.
"The game was played in a tough manner, and there were probably instances
that may have gone over the line," he added.
Reacting to the incident, England coach Peter Moores said the
hosts' on-field behaviour did get a bit "out of hand".
India won the ill-tempered match, in which pacer S Sreesanth
was fined 50 per cent of his match fee for indiscipline, by seven wickets to
record only their fifth victory on English soil.
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