India, March 3 -- Former Australian leg-spinner Stuart MacGill's latest podcast appearance has gone viral for all the wrong reasons, after an extraordinary on-air blow-up with co-host Andre Menczel during a discussion on Candice Warner's treatment in South Africa. What began as a debate over media responsibility quickly turned into one of the most uncomfortable on-air exchanges, with the conversation spiralling from disagreement into repeated personal insults.

The flashpoint came on the Cricket Unfiltered podcast when Menczel was condemning the crowd taunts directed at David Warner's wife, Candice Warner, during Australia's 2018 tour, including the Sonny Bill Williams mask episode. Menczel called it low and way over the line, a view that...