Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer is now being forced to fend off allegations that South Africa was guilty of ball-tampering during a one-day international game when he was its coach..jpg)
The claims have surfaced amid the controversy that took place at The Oval last week, which saw Pakistan forfeit its final Test against England after umpire Darrell Hair accused it of ball-tampering.
Former match referee Barry Jarman has slated the current Pakistan coach by saying Woolmer's former team used to tamper with the ball as well.
However, Woolmer has dismissed Jarman's claims as fiction.
"I just do not understand why Barry Jarman has said this," he told the BBC.
"Go and ask the two umpires in the game I'm supposed to have done this. They will say they don't know anything about it."
Jarman's accusation, which concerns a match between South Africa and India in 1997, appeared in the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
The Australian was the TV umpire for the game in question and claimed the South Africans visibly lifted the seam and scratched the ball with their fingernails.
"I picked up the binoculars and started watching closer. Even when the bowler fielded the ball, he threw it to players specifically designated to mess around with it," he said.
The allegation comes just days after Woolmer, in an interview with British paper the Guardian, called for ball-tampering laws to be scrapped.
"I'd allow bowlers to use anything that naturally appears on the cricket field," he said.
"They could rub the ball on the ground, pick the seam, scratch it with their nails - anything that allows the ball to move off the seam to make it less of a batsman's game."
