Trott: Ajmal's action shouldn't worry England

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Trott: Ajmal's action shouldn't worry England

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The focus needs to be on stopping Ajmal's success rather than querying legitimacy of his action.

21 January,2012 05:43 pm

This has been said by England batsman Jonathan Trott believes following the offspinners 10-wicket haul to steer Pakistan to an emphatic win in the first test.Pakistan won by 10 wickets on Thursday inside three days after Saeed Ajmals starring performance, but former England cricketer Bob Willis is concerned about the spinners action when he bowls his doosra delivery which spins away from the right-handed batsman.Its always going to happen if someone mentions it, Trott said Saturday of querying a bowling action.Wildfire spreads quite quickly and it draws lot of attention on the individual.With regards to delivery action ... that wouldnt be beneficial for us to worry about the legitimacy of someones action. Its important that we win the next game and dont take our attention of that. You can easily caught up in the things going off the field and as a cricketer our job is to perform on it, and thats our job in the next test.Ajmals bowling action wasnt reported by on-field umpires Billy Bowden and Ben Oxenford to Indian match referee Javagal Srinath.Trott said it was not his teammates job to do anything with regards to opposition players in the remaining two tests of the series and should instead be left to the International Cricket Council.Yeah, its their job, Trott said. Weve got to worry about ourselves.Ive played against the bowler in case before and weve been pretty successful, Trott said.Ajmals bowling action was first questioned during the 2009 tour of Australia before the offspinner took remedial measures laid down by the ICC and was back in international cricket the same year.After an off day, England players trained on Friday before they leave for Abu Dhabi on Sunday for the second test, beginning from Wednesday.It was good to get out of last match and move on, Trott said. Its really important that the guys have done that.England has to double their efforts in staging a comeback into the series after its first loss in 13 months, since losing to Australia at Perth in December 2010.England, who became No. 1 in the world in August after whitewashing India at home, has not won a test series against India, Pakistan or Sri Lanka on the subcontinent in a decade.I dont think its too doom and gloom, honestly, Trott said. Its a great challenge for the team. Probably England teams havent been successful in the past ... and we have a great opportunity, weve a great bunch of guys and a good team to be able to do that, so I cant see why we cant do that.--AP