Overview

• Former Pakistan pacer Shabbir Ahmed posted on X that an 80-over-old ball “still shine like new” and urged umpires to send it to an ICC lab for examination
• India’s six-run win in the fifth Test at The Oval levelled the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy 2-2 before the tampering claims emerged
• Mohammed Siraj and Prasidh Krishna produced prodigious reverse swing with the worn ball, combining for seven late wickets for 66 runs
• The ICC has not issued any formal response or confirmed plans to conduct laboratory testing of the match ball
• Former Pakistan cricketers Hasan Raza and Inzamam-ul-Haq made similar ball-tampering accusations against India in the 2023 ODI and 2024 T20 World Cups