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[caption id="attachment_46034" align="aligncenter" width="580"] AB de Villiers in a conversation with the umpires on Saturday. Image Source: twitter[/caption] Internet Desk: Proteas captain AB de Villiers is certain that his side had done nothing wrong when they were caught to be involved in a fresh ball tampering in their international series against England. The England team defeated South Africa by two runs in the third and final match by 2 runs at Southampton. The South African captain can be accused for tampering a new ball. After the 33rd over, it appeared he was trying to get the ball changed. But de Villiers later revealed he was in fact insisting to umpires Chris Gaffaney and Rob Bailey that the Proteas were not responsible for illegally altering its condition. Earlier in November, the nation’s test captain Faf du Plessis was fined of his match fee by the ICC for shining the ball by saliva which was produced by chewing a mint. Asked at a post-match news conference if he felt he was being held responsible, de Villiers replied: "Yes, I did." He added: "The umpires felt the condition of the ball changed, in a way making me feel we were responsible as a team. "I was quite upset about that ... (but) it's done and dusted now. Nothing happened, there were no fines given or anything like that." Reflecting on his conversation with the officials, de Villiers said: "I expressed I was quite upset about it. "I told the umpires we had nothing to do with the condition of the ball ... no further steps were taken ... and we move on. "Generally there is a warning or a fine, but none of that happened. That tells me they realised we were innocent in this case. "I honestly think it was just a bad ball today ... which happens sometimes, the leather comes off sometimes. "Unfortunately, the umpires didn't agree with that." De Villiers's mood would not have been improved by what happened late in the game. South Africa needed just 10 runs from the last 10 balls to level things up at 1-1. But they finished on 328 for five in reply to England's 330 for six as David Miller (71 not out) and Chris Morris just fell short after Quinton de Kock (98) and de Villiers (52) had set up the chase. Containing bowling from England pacemen Jake Ball and Mark Wood, whose combined figures were a seemingly unimpressive none for 129, kept them at bay. "I got a bit excited there at the end - I thought we had it in the bag," said de Villiers. "I thought Chris and David played a great hand in that partnership to get us so close ... (but) you've got to give credit to the last two bowlers for England. "They showed some great skill and good plans."