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'You thought I was bowling
jelly beans?'

Once the two umpires were convinced, they in turn spoke to Pietersen, and also warned Vaughan to get his players back into line. Play resumed; the jelly bean barrage stopped.

Every good story has a sequel; the follow-up to this particular story came when India was finally bowled out for 481 (Zaheer not out 10) and England came out to bat.

Zaheer was unplayable; he swung the ball both ways, troubled every batsman who faced him, and more than once, followed up a brilliant delivery with a taunt of his own.

On one occasion, stump microphones picked his voice, clear as crystal, telling Cook after a particularly vicious delivery: 'You thought I was bowling jelly beans?'

His victims in the second innings: Strauss, Cook, Vaughan, Collingwood and Bell. Only an outstanding in-cutter from R P Singh prevented the fired up left arm quick from adding Pietersen to his tally, but otherwise, his revenge was complete.