David Warner has launched another verbal attack on Quinton de Kock‚ but this time it is on the record. Unlike what happened on the boundary and on a staircase at Kingsmead on Sunday — when Warner called De Kock a "f**king sook [softie]" and then, in a video that did not carry a soundtrack, unleashed a tirade on the South African that lasted all the way until the teams reached their dressing rooms — Warner’s words were recorded. The Australian vice-captain spoke at a media conference for Australian reporters only that was published solely in Australian outlets. "I think you guys are well aware that I cop it left‚ right and centre‚ especially off the field from spectators‚" Warner was quoted as saying by the Melbourne Age. "I am used to that and it doesn’t bother me. But in the proximity of my personal space and behind me‚ a comment that was vile and disgusting and about my wife and just in general about a lady‚ was quite poor‚ I felt. "My emotional response‚ you saw‚ was just [to] so...
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