Shane Warne has admitted to frustration at having umpire Aleem Dar constantly reject his confident LBW appeals.
Warne's three wickets after tea on day three of the first Ashes Test at Lord's proved his spell over England was as strong as ever, but he was far from happy as he had several confident leg before shouts turned down by the Pakistani umpire.
Dar calmly refused Warne's sustained, vociferous appeals, and the legspinner had arms in the air in anguish, shook his head and at one stage put a hand over his mouth.
"Yeah, I thought a couple of them were pretty close, I suppose that's one way you can put it," Warne said later.
"At one stage I suppose I didn't think we were playing them."
Two of Warne's big appeals came when England openers Andrew Strauss and Marcus Trescothick did not offer shots to big-turning leg breaks, while Trescothick conceded he was in strife when he was hit in front last ball before tea to a delivery that went straight on.
"Very concerned, I didn't pick it to be honest," Trescothick said.
"I thought I hit it. But then I saw on the replay it was very close (smirking).
"There you go, not a lot else to say really."
Warne did question Dar over why some of his appeals were turned down, although it was unclear what was said.
The pair famously exchanged words in Brisbane last November, when Dar penalised Warne for bowling legside wides against New Zealand.
When Warne questioned those decisions, Dar said they were for negative bowling and told Test cricket's leading-wicket-taker: "You look after your job and I'll worry about mine."
Warne put a diplomatic spin on his disappointment at Lord's.
"Look, it's always pretty tough with an inside edge or if it goes straight or did it pitch outside," he told Channel Four.
"It's a real tough job and it's a real hard job to go to the umpires and you've just got to hang in there, all you can do is appeal when you think they're out.
"I thought I had a couple of close shouts and I just wanted to stay as patient as I could and try and execute my plans to each of the batters I had, and I thought I did that OK."
Warne also had a confident leg before appeal turned down in England's first innings on day two, when Kevin Pietersen was ruled not out by South African umpire Rudi Koertzen.
Pietersen later said he was lucky not to be given out.
