The Spin said:
Ill repeat what I have said many times. We have worked out that the ball condition must have changed between Cooks dismissal and the umpires checking the ball. During that time there were no sixes hit and I think 1 four was hit.
OK..apologies...I guess that point becomes completely void
It seems even some poms share my view about england's double standards. Angus Fraser from the independent:
"When Waqar and Wasim were ripping out Test sides with an array of unplayable inswinging yorkers, the antennae of those on the receiving end suddenly perked up, and underhand tactics were deemed to be taking place. And it was the same at the weekend when Alastair Cook was flummoxed by a similar style of delivery from the Pakistan seamer Umar Gul.
Yet in 2005, when Andrew Flintoff and Simon Jones were knocking over Australia's Ricky Ponting and Adam Gilchrist, barely an eyebrow was raised. The consensus was that England's brave young boys had legitimately perfected this mysterious art and the ageing Aussies were not up to it."
Perhaps Atherton merely gave England the "dirt" on how to reverse swing.