Paul Collingwood has brushed off criticism over his captaincy from former Australia star Shane Warne.
Spin legend slams Collingqood's captaincy credentials
Paul Collingwood has brushed off criticism over his captaincy from former Australia star Shane Warne.
The leg-spinner continued a long-running saga between the pair by attacking the England all-rounder's credentials as leader during the ongoing ICC World Twenty20.
However, Collingwood is expecting more of the same from Warne throughout the summer, after
Sky Sports invited the Aussie to join their commentary team for the Ashes.
"Listen, I'm going to get a lot of stick off him this summer - I know that for a fact," said Collingwood.
"I haven't got any comeback against him now because he's in the media so I can't actually sledge him back.
"We had a ding dong out in the middle of the last Ashes series and I'm the kind of person who wants to compete with him, I want to win and whether he likes that I don't know.
"I'm going to get plenty more off him this summer but I'll just have to grin and bear it because I can't say anything back to him now."
Warne, who famously questioned whether Collingwood should have received an MBE for playing in only one match of the 2005 Ashes series during England's tour Down Under two years ago, said in his column in the
Times:
"Tactically, I haven't been too impressed with Paul Collingwood...I don't see him as a captain.
"You need to get funky at times, throw a bit of caution to the wind and show a bit of flair and imagination. I don't think that Collingwood has that. His fielding positions always seem a little basic to me."
