Harry Brook of England has accused India of causing the tense, intense disputes that broke out amongst a number of players during last week's Lord's Test of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy.

He claimed that although England has always attempted to "play in the spirit of the game," "the lads" provoked them by attacking Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley during Jasprit Bumrah's over on the third day.

India believed Crawley was wasting time that day by making sure stumps were called following Bumrah's over. The Indian captain even lined up chests with Duckett as Gill, Bumrah, and Mohammed Siraj pointed fingers at Crawley.

On the fourth day, England returned it to them before stumps, with Stokes giving sardonic claps and Brydon Carse yelling obscenities at Akash Deep.

“Yeah, we saw those guys going at Creeps (Zak Crawley) and Ducky (Ben Duckett), so we had a little chat, and we thought we were a team, so we may as well combine, get together, and yeah, go back in there," Brook said before the fourth Test in Manchester.

In response to a question about whether it was beneficial to the game, Brook said that he had heard from others that it was "awesome" that they had about 11 players versus two Indians in the latter innings.

“I’ve had a lot of compliments; everybody said that it was awesome to watch, and it looked like there were 11 versus 2 out there, and we were fielding, and it was good fun. It was good fun. It was tiring, but yeah, it was good. It made fielding a lot more enjoyable," he said.

Brook was further probed about whether England ‘knew the line,’ and he again blamed the flare-up on India.

“Yeah, absolutely. And we’d try and play in the spirit of the game as much as possible. And like you said, those lads went hard, and Creeps and Ducky on that night when Bumrah bowled that single over. So we watched that, and we reassessed, and we thought it was the right time to go back at them,” he added.