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And, Warne too

Melbourne: Besides questioning Sachin Tendulkar’s honesty in the ’Monkeygate” controversy, Adam Gilchrist says in his yet-to-be-released autobiography that he was pissed off by on-field verbal abuses by Shane Warne.

In his autobiography Gilchrist has revealed the hurt of being labelled “a . . . licker” by Warne.

According to Daily Telegraph, Gilchrist claimed that the seeds of animosity were sown in a Sheffield Shield match in the late 1990s when Warne sledged the wicketkeeper.

Warne, playing for Victoria, was backing his teammate Darren Berry to be Ian Healy’s successor as Test wicketkeeper, over Gilchrist, who was playing for Western Australia.

“Warnie and Darren Berry were absolutely giving it to me, verbally,” Gilchrist writes in his autobiography.

The nature of what they were saying was extremely hurtful. “... considering I’d played some cricket with Warnie now for Australia, it was below the belt. At the time it almost killed me,” he said in his autobiography.

Their frosty relationship was laid bare when Warne was stripped of the vice-captaincy in 2000 and Gilchrist was given the position.

“He has really pissed me off over the years with certain acts, and I’ve pissed him off too.” — PTI

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