Fine, if Fletcher thinks England can tackle me: Warne

Sydney, Dec 7 (UNI) Shane Warne has laughed off Duncan Fletcher's claims that England have learnt to tackle him and despite the abject surrender in the second Test at Adelaide, Andrew Flintoff's men have shaken off the hold the veteran leg-spinner once had over them.

''I'm sure Fletcher will come up with some you-beaut plan, a you-beaut comment,'' Warne was quoted as saying in the 'Herald Sun'.

''I know Fletcher has said he thought England are playing me really well. If that is what he thinks, that's fine, but at the end of the day it is all about winning,'' he added.

Fletcher is convinced that despite the huge loss in which Warne bowled a destructve spell to take four wickets in the second innings, the English team showed that they were no longer under Warne's grip.

''I don't think he has,'' Fletcher said when asked whether the Aussie spin king dominated the English batsmen.

''It's like other good spinners who have bowled well against us on wickets that suit them. I have never said we have played him comfortably in the sense we are confident against him, but I felt we played him better than we have in recent years.

''He had to wait 54 overs for one wicket in the first innings. In the second we struggled to score off him but he still had to bowl 32 overs,'' he added.

Warne also rubbished claims that he struggled against Kevin Pietersen and was forced to bowl a negative line to the English swashbuckler.

''Apart from them I have felt very comfortable bowling to all their players and I still feel comfortable bowling to Pietersen and Collingwood,'' Warne said.

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