Gilly Vs Warne Now

[SciD]

This auto biography is getting spicy

ADAM Gilchrist has written of the hurt of being labelled an "a - - - licker" by Shane Warne and the poor relationship between the two legends.

The seeds for Australian cricket's great cold war were sown in a Sheffield Shield match in the late 1990s when Warne mercilessly sledged the wicketkeeper in an incident that Gilchrist has never forgotten.

Playing for Victoria, Warne was backing his great mate 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, True Colours, to be released next week.

"They were saying 'A - - -licker, you've only got where you are because you're an a - - -licker.

"The nature of what they were saying was extremely hurtful.

"I felt it had a lot to do with me being above Chuck (Berry) in the pecking order behind Healy.

"Chuck might have envied me because of that and Warnie was Chuck's best friend.

"But considering I'd played some cricket with Warnie now for Australia, it was below the belt. At the time it almost killed me."

Warne and Gilchrist were one of the most successful bowler-keeper partnerships in history but never really got along.

Their frosty relationship sprang to life when Warne was stripped of the vice-captaincy in 2000 and Gilchrist was given the job.

Being dropped from the Australian vice-captaincy hurt Warne because it excluded him from one of the things he cherished most about cricket - a say in team leadership.

Warne got his own back last year when he claimed Gilchrist should have been sacked from the Australian vice-captaincy and Michael Clarke appointed.

Gilchrist, in his book, claims he is always happy to see Warne despite the leg-spinner "p--sing me off over the years with certain acts".

Source: http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24548582-10389,00.html

 

[smssia0112]

Doesn't sound very spicy at all - sounds like Warne sledged Gilchrist and that was it.

 

[angryangy]

Warne and Gilchrist were always rivals, as well as opposites in character, the good guy and the bad boy, the white knight and the wizard. Warne became vice captain and was favoured to take the captaincy after Waugh, but Ponting and Gilchrist were the ones able to show the responsibility required. Darren Berry's resentment at never being picked for Australia was heavily publicised and he never really missed a chance to pick at Gilchrist's keeping skills in the media.

 

[nikhil_99]

Might be true,but all this is giving a good publicity for the book,no doubt...

 

[Chetan0304]

Who cares about his autobiography now ...

 

[Will_NA]

Warne was a magnificent cricketer on the field but an even better twat off of it. Anything he says doesn't surprise me.

 

[Deleted member 11215]

Sounds like one of them has grammar problems as we all know it should be an ars...

 

[smssia0112]

Warne missed out on the captaincy ultimately because of his constant off field troubles. Gilchrist was a safer bet for vice captain, and Ponting was the young star and a good choice for captain long term.

 

[SaiSrini]

Warne looked real good as captain when he captained Rajasthan Royals. He made his players perform well by encouraging them pretty often.

Maybe he is right in a way wanting to captain, but that language was bad (if true!). I personally feel all these things should remain with their confines. I am not a fan of cricketers sharing all these secrets with their autobiographies.

 

[Cricketman]

"Hey ass licker, you're an asslicker".

Creative, Warney!

 

[aussie1st]

Warne was always our best choice for captain after Waugh but his bad deeds cost him his chance as we all know already.

He seems to have a beef with quite a few of his team maters, first Waugh now Gilly. I wonder what Warne thinks of his call for Berry over Gilly now.

 

[.::Stevo::.]

Who cares about his autobiography now ...

uh, what??

 

[Tusku]

Ponting was a good choice as a captain.

Warne was a great cricketer, but he did some foolish things on/off the field which didn't flourish his image at all.

 

[sohum]

Everyone already knows that Warne is a twat... so nothing new being disclosed here by Gilly.

 

[westindies2007]

Don't matter what I perfer Gilchrist over any Aussie batsman.