During his playing days, Steve Waugh was known as a true gentleman of the game and the former Australia skipper continues to carry himself in a dignified way.
On Monday (May 18), Waugh gave a glimpse of it as he reacted to ex-teammate Shane Warne’s "most selfish cricketer" claim in such a way that he totally doused the controversy.
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“People keep saying it’s a feud. But to me, a feud’s between two people. I’ve never brought into it, so it’s just one person,” Waugh told Nine Papers.
“His comments are a reflection of himself, nothing to do with me. That’s all I’d say,” he added.
Last week, Warne termed Steve Waugh as the "most selfish cricketer" he ever played with.
Warne's remark came after a cricket fan posted a video on Twitter, highlighting that Waugh was involved in 104 run outs during his international career and his batting partner was the victim on 73 occasions.
Replying to the tweet, Warne wrote: "For the record AGAIN & I've said this 1000 times - I do not hate S Waugh at all. FYI - I picked him in my all time best Australian team recently. Steve was easily the most selfish cricketer that I ever played with and this stat......."
The relationship between Shane Warne and Steve Waugh has never been good. In his autography, No Spin, the former leg-spinner has opened up on his not so pleasant experiences with the 1999 World-Cup winning captain.
"He became a completely different person when he took over as captain, It wasn't that he dropped me. I have no issue about being dropped if I'm not performing; if you don't perform, out you go. But there was more to it than my performances - I think it was jealousy."
"He started to niggle away, telling me to look at my diet and spend more time on deciding what sort of person I wanted to be in my life, how to conduct myself - that sort of stuff. I said, 'Mate - worry about yourself.'" Warne narrated in his 2018-released book, recalling his exclusion from the playing XI for the fourth Test on the 1999 tour of West Indies.
