Warner, De Kock spat a shame, says Morrison
dubai — Danny Morrison called the spat between Australian vicecaptain David Warner and South African wicketkeeper-batsman Quinton de Kock ‘a shame’.
Warner and de Kock were involved in an off-the-field verbal duel during the first Test in Durban for which the Australian has been fined 75 percent of his match fees by the ICC and de Kock has been docked 25 percent.
When asked to comment on the incident, former New Zealand fast bowler Morrison said: “It is a shame.”
“Warner’s got a history of it, he’s an instigator, so I think when you get niggled at, and sometimes someone is going to get a little cheeky and in this case it’s Quinton de Kock and he’s given back some stuff. But I think in the modern era one is trying to get away from all that stuff. Of course the Aussies are renowned for it, they like to have something to say. But let’s not say players from the England team don’t do it, you have some specific guys, almost like the ‘enforcers’, like some of the guys I played in the Kiwis side liked to say something and get stuck in – play the verbal jousting, so to speak,” Morrison said at the PSL (Pakistan Super League) in Dubai.
“For the Aussies, it is in their psyche and having lived in Australia full time for nearly 12 years I’ve been seeing how players react at club cricket and as a media personnel watching it and seeing it unfold.
“But yeah it isn’t great. It isn’t good for the younger generation looking at it so it will be interesting to see what happens moving forward about trying to stamp it out.”