Former Australia captain Michael Clarke shed light on the relationship between Shane Warne and John Buchanan, who didn’t get along at all throughout the coach’s 7-year tenure.
“The fact him and John didn’t get on and Warnie didn’t respect John Buchanan as a coach at all, that he thought I’m not getting told what to do from this dude.
““If it was Ricky Ponting there, Warnie would have found a way to either bite his tongue or he might have said something to Ricky one-on-one … it wouldn’t have been in front of everyone. At that stage Warnie was so done with John Buchanan he didn’t care,” Clarke said.
Clarke also described Shane Warne’s love for smoking and revealed shocking details of the leg-spin legend’s behaviour during their training camp in the Australian outback before the Ashes series against England in 2006.
Clarke revealed how the Australian players were allowed to take just basic essentials like t-shirts, pants, socks, underwear, joggers and a cap but Warne chose to let go of all that for cigarettes on the 3-day training camp in the outback.
“For someone like Warnie who loved a smoke, he pretty much told them he is not coming unless he can bring his smokes. It was World War five,” Clarke said on Big Sports Breakfast.
