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FORMER Australia captain Kim Hughes has launched a scathing attack on David Warner for his comments about Jonathan Trott during the first Ashes Test.
Trott stunned the cricketing world by announcing he was leaving Australia on Monday night, citing a stress-related condition.
The England camp is adamant Warner's press conference sledges on Trott, in which the South African-born batsman was described as having "scared eyes" and playing a "pretty weak" shot, had no direct relation to his decision to fly home.
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But England coach Andy Flower and captain Alastair Cook made no secret of their displeasure over Warner's comments, and now Hughes has joined former international skippers such as Nasser Hussain in criticising the Aussie opener.
"For David Warner, at a news conference [to] just say that, he's weak. That is disgraceful," Hughes said.
"Irrespective of what Jonathan Trott has done now, I think it is one of the worst things I've ever heard in my whole life."
Hughes also took aim at Cricket Australia, which made no attempt to apologise for Warner's comments.
Coach Darren Lehmann even took the unusual step of effectively rubber stamping what Warner said.
"For the Australian captain not to have done anything about it, and for Cricket Australia not to have done anything about it, is deplorable," Hughes said.
Hughes, who played 70 Tests and 97 one-day internationals for Australia, also weighed into the on-field sledging debate, saying he objected to the assertion that insulting opposition players is part of the game as long as it stays on the field.
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"I've had my parentage questioned, I've had my sexuality questioned, it goes on in the heat of battle," Hughes said.
"And that's part and parcel of it. I don't know why. They say it is, it shouldn't be.
"But you don't do it off the field. That's just deplorable and unacceptable in any field of endeavour."
Hughes himself dealt with similar issues to those that appear to be affecting Trott now, with the 59-year-old famously stepping down as Aussie captain in a tearful press conference on this day 29 years ago.
It's a decision Hughes says he remains completely comfortable with.
'I've moved on," he said.
"But at the end of the day I had no more petrol left in the tank to keep fighting.
"And I was becoming a person I didn't like so I thought I'll give it away, and I'm a better person for having given it away."
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