Broad for continuing series

He also said that it was for the authorities to decide whether the suspected Pakistani cricketers should be suspended from the remaining tour.

“The one-day series should go on, as far as I’m concerned. We shouldn’t call it off on the back of an investigation that is ongoing. We want to play and what about the supporters who have paid for tickets?,” Broad wrote in Daily Mail.

“It is up to others to decide whether any of the Pakistan players involved in those allegations should miss those games, but we will be giving our utmost against whoever we face. And we trust the opposition will be, too.”

Broad, who hit his maiden Test century in the Lord’s Test, believes that Pakistani side fought hard throughout and that he did not notice anything untoward in the series, which his side won 3-1.

“We are all still stunned in the England cricket team. The dressing room is in a state of shock at the allegations that now surround our Test series victory over Pakistan. I can honestly say that I never dreamt there was anything untoward about our victories,” he wrote.

“I can’t accept that this series victory has been tarnished in any way. Whatever the true story is, I have absolutely no doubts that Pakistan were giving everything to try to win that match (Lord’s). It was proper competition, as it has been throughout the series.”

“Believe me, the (Pakistani) bowling was of a very high standard against us at Lord’s. Ask our batsmen, who were out cheaply as we slipped to 47 for five, whether or not that was full-blooded Test cricket out there and they will tell you that it was extremely tough going,” Broad wrote.

20-year-old cricketer though favoured strict punishment for guilty. “You must always trust what you are watching and the moment you feel you are not sure that someone is giving their best is the moment when sport loses its reason for being,” he wrote.