India, July 13 -- Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar lambasted England on Saturday for using a 92-year-old ploy against an injured Rishabh Pant during the third Test match at Lord's and appealed to Sourav Ganguly, chairman of the ICC Men's Cricket Committee, to look into the rule.

England used the short-ball ploy on Day 3 of the third Test match in London to curb India's scoring. Sixty per cent of their deliveries bowled by the English seamers in the first session on Saturday were all short of length. In fact, captain Ben Stokes deployed six fielders to the leg side against Pant, who on Friday had injured his left hand and had to leave the ground for medical assistance.

After the India vice-captain was hit a couple of times by Stokes's...