Hussain and Warne discussed the incident and had a laugh about it.
Australia's legendary leg-spinner Shane Warne talked about an on-field incident with former England captain Nasser Hussain on the Sky Sports vodcast.
Warne and Hussain often indulged in banter during their playing days. There was this incident when the leggie got under the skin of Hussain and made him play a wrong shot.
When the Englishman said half of the story isn't true, Warne had to tell the whole story. “Nasser, this is word-for-word true and you know it,” he began. “Steve Waugh was injured and I was vice-captain, Nasser was captain for England.
“We were playing a one-dayer in Sydney and England were cruising. It got basically 10 overs to go and England needed around 50 or 60 to win seven wickets in hand."
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“So I’d saved myself and [Glenn] McGrath for a couple of overs in case we could get a wicket and then get us both on to see if we could get two or three wickets in a row to get us back in the game. But it wasn’t happening.
“I thought the only way we are going to win this game is if we take a wicket. So I’m going to bring myself and McGrath back and I’m going to start sledging Nass to see if I can upset him and then I’ll come on the other end straight away. I started getting into him saying ‘I know you’re going to stuff this up. I know you’re going to get out. Don’t let your team down this time’.
“So I come on to bowl, bowl the first couple and suddenly you see Nass just run down and he wanted to hit me for 12 – not six – he wanted 12. But he missed and got out. Stumped.
“But when I started having a go at Nass he turned to me and said: ‘Listen you fat p****, you’re not going to captain ever again so make the most of this one!”
The Aussie succeeded in getting Hussain out by upsetting him mentally. England lost the match by 10 runs chasing a target of 233 in 1998-99 Carlton & United Series, in Sydney. Hussain had scored 58 runs.