It will be all water under the bridge in the series betweenPakistanandEngland, as Graeme Swann reveals that there will be ‘no bad blood’ regarding the fixing scandal that tarnished their last meeting.
Pakistani cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif were jailed in November when they were found guilty of deliberately bowling no-balls in a Test match at Lord’s in 2010.
“There is no reason for there to be any bad blood,” Swann told BBC Sport.
“I would expect it to go the other way, with both teams going all out to make sure it’s played in the right spirit.”
Swann was playing forEnglandin the Lord’s Test when an undercover reporter from the defunct News of the World revealed that the three players had been involved in a fixing scam during the series.
While Butt, Amir and Asif were suspended during the investigation, the five match one-day series between the two teams was rife with hostility.
But the off-spinner had revealed that it is time to leave things in the past both teams look forward to the three-Test series starting inDubaion 17 January.
“Those guys who were playing then are obviously not in the team now and there is absolutely no reason for there to be any bad blood.”
