England captain Michael Vaughan apologised to India's Zaheer Khan for the jelly bean controversy at Trent Bridge but said incident had nothing to with England's defeat. India won the second Test by seven wickets before lunch on the final day to take a 1-0 lead in the series, however the game was littered with incidents that overshadowed the cricket. Zaheer reacted angrily to England putting jelly beans on the pitch while he was batting on Sunday evening. "It's an incident that has been blown out of proportion," Vaughan said. "A few jelly beans were left on the floor by the stumps at a drinks interval as we got a wicket. "If it offended Zaheer in any way we apologise for that. But there were no jelly beans thrown from the slip cordon. "It's not the reason why we've lost a game of cricket, because of some jelly beans. We just didn't apply ourselves as well as we could have done with the bat. We were probably 60 or 70 runs light in the first and second innings."
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
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