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Alastair Cook has fervently denied Umar Gul's charge that England bowlers Stuart Broad and James Anderson have occupied in ball tampering.
Gul claimed Anderson tampered with the ball during Pakistan's contentious 2010 tour of England and that Broad did the same in the most recent Ashes series in Australia.
He said: "During our series against England last year I saw [James] Anderson was doing it (ball tampering). Against Australia, when they [England] won the Ashes, everyone saw Broad use his shoe to scratch the ball."
England one-day captain Cook hit back at the 27-year-old's claims today, saying: "We certainly haven't tampered with the ball and if he did have any complaint he should have gone to the ICC over that.
"I think he has approximately said himself that it has been a bit of a mountain out of a molehill."
Gul came out with claim that Broad and Anderson illegally tampered with the ball after reading retired Pakistan paceman Shoaib Akhtar's memoirs, which contains an admission that he took part in ball tampering during his career.
Cook was speaking at London Heathrow airport ahead of his team's leaving to India, where they will play five 50-over games and one Twenty20 over the next four weeks.
Cook led the ODI team to a 3-0 win over the Indians in England this summer after Andrew Strauss had skippered the team to a 5-0 Test whitewash.
Cook admit playing the 50-over world champions on their own soil will be a much harder task, but has still back his men to win.
"I surely think we can beat India," Cook said."It will be extremely tough. We need everyone to be playing very well.
"We all know what the one-day crowds are like over there. They love their cricket. "Delivering our skills when 50,000 or 60,000 people are screaming and when balls are flying all over the place will also be a key factor, but absolutely with this squad I think we can do something actually special."
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