Gill said, “That day with English batsmen, they had a seven -minute game left.” “They were 90 seconds late to come to the crease. 10, not 20, they were 90 seconds late.
“Leaded to the incident, many things that we had not thought should not happen. I would not say that it is something that I am very proud of, but there was a lead-up and build-up for that incident. It did not come from just anywhere.
“We had no intention to do so. Whatever it is. You are playing a game, playing to win and it contains a lot of feelings. When you are seeing that things are happening that should not happen, sometimes feelings do not come out from anywhere.”
Stokes spoke to Gill before, so he did not get an opportunity to directly respond to the allegation that his team had worked against the spirit of the game.
On Monday, Batter Harry Brooke revealed that coach Brendon McCullum told England that he was “very good” before the Lord’s Test, with an assessment stokes.
Stokes told the BBC Sport, “Perhaps it’s a good way to insert it, so it’s great when we can go out and do what we did there, and we were able to return it with their actions,” Stokes told the BBC Sport.
Despite regular flashpoints in the last two days of the Lord’s Test, Stokes was neither engaged in the team that was unacceptable.
Stokes said, “The conversation and back and forth what you see in the middle is sometimes more analyzed and criticized,” Stokes said.
“No person must have gone to cry to cry themselves that we told each other. We are very early these days to seal the kind of stuff. It just shows passion, desire. Both teams want to win.
“It is never going on the line and if it goes above the line, it is the responsibility of the captain to pull it back. We did not go on the line on a platform and did not go to India line on a single platform.”
England will win the series with a game when winning the fourth Test in Manchester. India has not won any of its nine trips in this ground, while England have lost only twice in this century.
Although aggression served England well at Lord’s, Stokes said that his team would not demand a confrontation in Old Trafford.
Stokes said, “We are definitely not going out of there and just starting it nothing, because I do not want it to take our attention away from what the goal of this week is.”
“It was good that we have said that we are not going to feel any team that they can scare us in any way.
“It’s not to overcome the conflict, it is just making sure it is not the main goal. It is doing it correctly, keeping its feelings in the investigation with all this.
“Every team in the world, if there is a little naggla, I am sure all their teams will jump inside and help them. This is what we did last week.”
