Bat raised, he walked in the direction of Pietersen, a string of words backing up the obvious threat of the upraised bat.
There is no telling why he picked on Pietersen. A far more obvious suspect would have been Alistair Cook, fielding closest to the bat at short square leg and thus in the best position to insinuate the boiled sweets onto the pitch.
Maybe something Pietersen said was adding insult to injury.
'Maybe I picked the wrong guy,' Zaheer said at the media briefing. 'But at the time, I was just not bothered. I just felt it was insulting. It was definitely from a fielder, because if it was placed unknowingly, it shouldn't have come there again when I removed it.'
India in the United Kingdom 2007
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