Oval Curator Responds Calmly To Gambhir Clash: 'We Have Nothing To Hide'

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After Gautam Gambhir's heated exchange, Oval pitch curator Lee Fortis responded, saying it’s a big game and he has 'nothing to hide.' Fortis clarified he had never met Gambhir before and shrugged off the tension, maintaining calm professionalism ahead of the crucial India-England final Test.

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00:01Are you happy?

00:02It's quite a big game coming up, isn't it?

00:04Yeah, yeah.

00:05But are you happy with Blodham Gambhir?

00:07I'm happy.

00:08It's not my job to be happy or not with him.

00:10But you said he's a bit touchy.

00:12Yeah.

00:13Is he a good man?

00:14I don't know.

00:15I don't know, man.

00:16I've never met him before today.

00:18No, you said he's a bit touchy.

00:19Oh, you have never been met before?

00:21I don't know.

00:22He must have played here.

00:23Oh.

00:24You said he's a bit touchy.

00:25I don't know.

00:26You saw what he was like this morning.

00:28You saw it.

00:29Why did he get animated?

00:31I don't know.

00:32You have to ask him that question.

00:33It happened from everyone.

00:34What's your side of the story?

00:36What's your side of the story?

00:38Definitely we'll ask him in the press conference.

00:40But we need to know your side of the story.

00:43Then the big thing is that people from your side will say,

00:47oh, Indian media driven story from there,

00:49and they have put the story from there,

00:51and they haven't asked for what I was thinking

00:54and what I was going through at that point of time.

00:56Yeah.

00:57So just wanted to be on the record.

00:58From your side.

00:59Anything you can.

01:00I know that there are obligations,

01:01but anything you can just say.

01:02It's okay.

01:03It's okay.

01:04It happens.

01:05It happens.

01:06What?

01:07It happens.

01:08Well, I'm okay, yeah.

01:10We've nothing to hide here, have we?

01:11No, no, no, no, no.

01:12Exactly.

01:13That's the only reason for you to say what we have.

01:16No, we're not getting them.

01:17Well, I think that it does look a bit like a...

01:19Oh.

01:20If you turn the cameras around and have a look what this is.

01:23No worries.

01:24Okay.

01:25We can't mess with you.

01:26Alright.

01:27What's that?

01:28I'm saying we can't really mess with you, right?

01:29We don't want to mess with you.

01:30What you're trying to say there?

01:32I'm just saying that...

01:33Like...

01:34If you...

01:35It would be nice if you could just tell the whole...

01:38The true picture.

01:39I just...

01:40I...

01:41I don't want to be ruled, but you're not asking anything.

01:44You're just...

01:45You're not asking anything.

01:46No, we are.

01:47We are.

01:48What's happening here?

01:49Coach, coach...

01:50We don't want to make any controversy.

01:51Exactly.

01:52What happened to your version of that?

01:53Okay.

01:54Done here.

01:55Thank you very much.

01:57He'll be back aside for now.

01:59Thanks, James.

02:00Thank you very much.

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