England tour of United Arab Emirates 2012

We let our supporters down: Anderson

England pace spearhead James Anderson has said that his team has let their supporters down by losing the recent first Test against Pakistan.

England pace spearhead James Anderson has said that his team has let their supporters down by losing the recent first Test against Pakistan.

"We didn’t just let ourselves down in the First Test but we let our management and supporters down, and we are acutely aware that our performance was nowhere near good enough. Life as a professional sportsman is all about winning, so to lose in that manner, hurts a great deal," James Anderson wrote for Daily Mail.

The number one Test side have lost the Dubai Test by 10 wickets within just three days.

"People have pointed to the fact this was our first game since being named the world’s best Test team and that the pressure might have got to us, or we believed our own Press," he wrote.

Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal has done all the damage to England's first innings as the 34-year-old spinner took ten-wicket haul in the match. However, some fingers were raised on Ajmal's action.

"Saeed Ajmal is a fine bowler — and it’s for the ICC to decide on his action, not us — but I actually didn’t think he bowled particularly well, even if he did take seven for 55," he wrote.

Anderson, who picked up two wickets in the opening Test against Pakistan, has revealed that he received some abusive Tweets after Dubai Test loss.

"Some of the abuse on Twitter has been especially severe, and rightly so. But the fact we’ve just been named the No 1 team is irrelevant. It wouldn’t matter when we produced a performance like that, it would still be unacceptable," wrote Anderson.