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Warne had a few allies in the Australian team over the years but overall Waugh's comment seems to be accurate. Warne wasn't well liked, and for good reason really.

People forget that when Warne was dropped he was not being replaced by some no hoper. Stuart McGill was arguably a top 5 spin bowler in the world as well. It wouldn't have taken a huge drop off from Warne for McGill to be considered a better option. In fact, I think I read somewhere in games...

Taylor and Ponting had very similar sides.

Actually quite the opposite. Waugh usually tried to protect the tailender by keeping them off the strike, which is why I think he has more runouts involving him as he was trying to keep the tailender off the strike, and that lead to some risky and questionable choices in running between the wickets.

Also dropping Warne wasn't a surprise since Stuart McGill was a very good spin bowler in his own right. In fact he would have been in most international teams. It wouldn't have taken much of a form slump from Warne for McGill to be the better option. Though I think deep down the reason for...

Nice to know you are not judging a person based off one incident that may or may not have been misunderstood by a child.

Chappell has always been happiest when his face was firmly implanted in Warne's colon, so it isn't surprising he dislikes Waugh.

If you were a girl he probably would have given you his phone number and a description of his penis.

I don't think Warne ever forgave Waugh for getting the captaincy over him. It was shown to be a good call as Waugh took a very good team and made it unbeatable, and Warne is so undisciplined he went through scandal after scandal after scandal. Warne was also far too vain and far too obsessed...

Chappell has always had his head firmly up Warne's arse and Chappell never forgave Steve Waugh for getting the captaincy in 1999 over Shane Warne even though Warne has proven over and over again he was not fit to be the Australian captain.

He also mentored Clark as the next Australian captain and Clark turned out to be a horrible leader.

Does anyone care to guess when the rotting of the culture within the Australian cricket team started? I know it was happening in Michael Clark's time, but I wonder if it started during the Ponting era.

Difference was back then there was no one to replace the lesser players because Australian cricket was going through a bad period. In 1999 that was not the case and Stuart McGill was arguably the best spinner in the world that was not getting a regular game for his national team.

and in a similar vein Warne would be very happy to cut players he did not like much much faster than players he did like.

He trusted the tail. He put faith in them and they seemed to respond to that faith most of the time.

Easily done as they look so similar :p

Especially when Taylor was captain as there were plenty of times when the top order collapsed in the mid to late 90's and Steve Waugh had to save the entire innings.

Waugh spent ages and ages working with Glenn McGrath and the other bowlers to improve their batting. In fact Steve Waugh could almost be credited as the one in world cricket who realised that having a strong tail end can be a huge asset.

Mark Taylor had the same team but he was not anywhere near as ruthless as Waugh was.

Not too random as no one blew more smoke up Warne's arse than Chappell did.

and does not make you a good leader either. You have to have a bit of self awareness and control to be a good leader and Warne has none.

and when he texted every woman who looked in his vague direction thinking they wanted to have sex with him.

To be honest I would not be surprised to find out from Warne that Ian Chappell used to enjoy coming into the change rooms after a game to massage and kiss his (Warne's) feet.

Maybe he did have a good cricketing brain, I am not disputing that (the rest of his brain was mush though) but his off field antics meant he was never going to be captain. Plus things like this shows Warne holds grudges and that is not something you want from the captain of the Australian test team.

Good on Steve Waugh for having the guts as captain to drop a player with a big name who was not performing.

Warne never got over the fact that Waugh was made captain over him. Warne had proven time and time again he would not have been a good captain, that he did not have the temperament for it but in Warne's mind, and only Warne's mind, he would have made a great captain.

This is really horrible. It has hit me quite hard this announcement. He was really young and no doubt would have become a really good batsman for Australia very soon.

Your fault :p

Only in cricket are players expected to walk. Do you think Collingwood fans after Cloke gives a hard push into his opponents back in a marking contest that the umpire missed will stop and say to the umpire "um you were wrong there, you should give a free kick to the other team".

Let women play in Big Bash League, says Steve Waugh http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/let-women-play-in-big-bash-league-says-steve-waugh-20130329-2gy8j.html#poll What does everyone think? I personally have no problem with the suggestion as all you have to do is look at International...