Wahab Riaz insists no one ‘ruder’ than a Pakistani

Wahab Riaz has warned any England cricketers who ‘sledge’ or verbally abuse their Pakistani opponents during the upcoming Test series may get more than they bargained for.Thursday sees England and Pakistan meet at Lord’s for the opening Test in a four-match series.It will be Pakistan’s first series in England since their infamous 2010 tour.

That saw bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif, together with the then captain Salman Butt given five-year bans an jail sentences for their roles in deliberately bowling no-balls during that year’s Lord’s Test as part of a spot-fixing ‘sting’ operation by a tabloid newspaper.Later that tour, when the teams returned to Lord’s for a one-day international, fast bowler Riaz and England batsman Jonathan Trott had to be separated in the nets after an angry exchange of words.Riaz, recalling the incident, told reporters at Lord’s on Tuesday.