Lewis also suggested Jadeja's claim that Anderson had pushed him ‘hard and caused him to break stride' was a ‘recent embellishment'. The commissioner was also critical of Adam Lewis, counsel for the Board of Control for Cricket in India, whose suggestion that Anderson had pushed Jadeja twice did not have ‘an iota of supporting evidence'.
India claimed Anderson shoved Jadeja without provocation as the players entered the pavilion for lunch on the second day of the first Test and told him to ‘f****** go back to the dressing-room'.
While Anderson is said to have agreed he used those words, he insisted that Jadeja had been the aggressor.
Gordon Lewis said: ‘Obviously one version of the facts must be untrue but the existing CCTV image is unhelpful and the witnesses hopelessly biased in favour of one party or the other.'
