AB de Villiers in a video on his YouTube channel© YouTube
The David Warner vs Mitchell Johnson saga caught all the cricketing world off guard. Seeing Johnson oppose David Warner’s choice within the Australian Take a look at group for the Pakistan collection, in addition to his ’hero’s sendoff’, many Aussie cricketers have tried to neutralise the controversy. Even South Africa nice AB de Villiers reacted to the controversy, asking the Australia duo to kind the feud themselves and never let the spat get dragged on in public. De Villiers additionally feels that this is not the top of the saga but.
”I simply do not like this public dialog between the 2 of them. Simply choose up the telephone and kind it out. Ask the man let’s exit for a chilly drink and kind the problems out. I really feel there are some scars from the dressing room however do not let the world get in on this,” De Villiers mentioned in a video on his YouTube channel.
”They’ve performed quite a lot of cricket collectively and have shared the dressing room quite a bit. So perhaps that is the place it began. Perhaps Mitchell Johnson felt that ’You are part of a World Cup profitable squad and now this send-off. You are getting away with quite a bit that must be talked about.’ I really feel there’s quite a bit nonetheless left to come back out,” he added.
In his column, Johnson mentioned that Warner ’does not warrant’ a hero’s sendoff due to his involvement within the ball-tampering scandal. He additionally questioned the Cricket Australia choice committee for the opening batter’s choice regardless of his poor type in red-ball cricket during the last 2-3 years.
Whereas admitting that Warner is usually a fearsome character to cope with the sphere, De Villiers mentioned that off it, he’s completely light.
”I’ve performed many cricket video games with this man (Warner) and on the sphere he could be brutal, however off the sphere, he’s a mild big. He’s a pleasant man. One thing switches on the sphere similar to Dale Steyn. I’ve performed with Davey at Delhi Daredevils and perhaps there’s a little bit of quick fuse generally. Perhaps his and Mitch’s quick fuse collided.”
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