BUST-UP
Australian bad boy David Warner restrained from row with South Africa’s Quinton de Kock
Heated pavilion bust-up in Durban allegedly prompted by De Kock's personal comments about opener Warner's wife, Candice
AUSSIE bad boy David Warner and South African wicket-keeper Quinton de Kock were involved in a major behind-the-scenes bust-up on the fourth day of the first Test.
Cricket Australia have launched an investigation after CCTV footage emerged showing Warner and De Kock confront each other as the teams headed for the dressing rooms.
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It was alleged that De Kock made personal comments about opener Warner's wife, Candice.
Warner was seen speaking to De Kock in an aggressive manner.
Then things became so heated in Durban that Baggy Greens' vice-captain Warner had to be held back by teammate Usman Khawaja with Aussie wicket-keeper Tim Paine also trying to calm him down.
Warner, known for his hot-headiness, also exchanged words with South Africa captain Faf du Plessis at the tea break.
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Warner was eventually dragged away by his captain Steve Smith, who accused De Kock of getting too personal with some of his comments to Warner.
Smith doesn’t want to see anymore incidents like this for the rest of the four-Test series.
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But he reiterated that De Kock ignited the entire incident.
He told : “Those sorts of things are not on from both sides. Getting personal on the field is not on.
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“We were certainly very chirpy out in the field as well. As far as I’m aware, we didn’t get personal towards Quinton.
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DAVID WARNER was once called “the most juvenile cricketer I have seen on a cricket field” by the late New Zealand captain Martin Crowe.
Here are five previous outbursts involving the Aussie vice-captain:
1 Tasmanian quick Brett Geeves was at the receiving end of a Warner Twitter tirade in 2011; he also attacked senior Australian journalists like Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn in 2013.
Warner received a £560 fine from Cricket Australia for the Conn incident.
2 Warner was in trouble for his part in the The Walkabout bar incident in Birmingham also involving England's Joe Root in 2013. Warner allegedly tried to punch Root after an Australia-England game at the ICC Champions Trophy.
CA banned Warner for the remaining Champions Trophy and the opening Ashes Test that followed. He publicly apologised to the now-England captain, who accepted it.
3 Demoted to the Australia A team in South Africa immediately after the Root incident, Warner touched base with former Proteas Test wicket-keeper Thami Tsolekile.
South African batsman Vaughn van Jaarsveld was forced to separate the two, but Cricket Australia took no further action.
4 In the 2013-14 Ashes series Warner laid into Jonathan Trott, claiming the England batsman was “pretty poor and pretty weak” and that the visitors looked like “they’ve got scared eyes”.
The England team management termed it “disrespectful”, and even Australia’s former captain Steve Waugh believed Warner had “crossed the line”.
Trott later withdrew from that Ashes tour, citing “stress and anxiety”.
5 Warner was fined 15 per cent of his match fee for an altercation when he indicated to the third umpire that Indian paceman Varun Aaron had overstepped when clean bowling him in Adelaide.
He was also fined when he clashed with Rohit Sharma, telling the opening batsman to “speak English” during a heated exchange between the two.
“What he said got a little bit personal towards Davey and, as we saw, it certainly provoked an emotional response.”
A Cricket Australia spokesperson said: "Following the end of the second session there was an incident involving David Warner and Quinton de Kock on return to the change rooms.
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"The incident was discussed between the two team managers and the match referee last night and it is now in the hands of the on-field umpires and match referee.
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";Both teams were reminded by the match referee of the spirit in which the game should be played."
Australia ended up winning by 118 runs in less than four overs on the fifth day as they only needed one wicket to take a 1-0 lead in the series.
The Baggy Greens wrapped things up when De Kock was trapped lbw to Josh Hazlewood for 83.
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