Michael Vaughan had called Salman Butt corrupt after the latter's comment on his ODI career.
From the comparison between India captain Virat Kohli and New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson to making personal comments, Michael Vaughan and Salman Butt are going after each other.
After Butt targetted Vaughan's ODI career as a batsman, the Englishman had called the ex-Pakistan cricketer a 'match-fixer and 'corrupt' for his role in the spot-fixing scandal in 2010 on Pakistan's tour to England.
Butt has now responded to Vaughan's personal attack on him and said the 'match-fixing' jibe was 'below the belt' while adding that some people have 'mental constipation'.
"I don't want to get into details. I just want to say that he's picked the topic in the wrong context. There is no justification for a reaction like this. This is very below-average, below-the-belt. If he wants to live in the past and wants to talk about it, he surely can. Constipation is an illness. Things get stuck and they don’t come out that easily. Some people have mental constipation. Their minds are in the past. That doesn’t matter," Butt said on his YouTube channel.
"We spoke about two great players and there was no need to take it into a different direction. But he has opted to. The year he has mentioned, he can go on. It's the past and it's gone. But that doesn't change the actual fact, which we spoke about. Had he provided some statistical presentation, some logic, some experienced-based observation, it would have been better. We too could have learned something.
"Had he spoken about cricket and proved us wrong or proved himself right, it would have been fun. But that didn’t happen. To go below the belt is an option everyone has. It just defines what you pick to do, it defines you. Now that he has done, it, he can keep on doing it as much as he can. It doesn't affect anyone, but he has just defined himself," he signed off.
Vaughan had responded to Butt's comments through social media posts. "This is very true Salman ... You are absolutely spot on ... but you forgot to mention I wasn’t a match-fixer who corrupted our great game like some ... #OnOn", he posted on Instagram.