Mark Waugh says David Warner needs to develop a thicker skin as he faces Cricket Australia hearing over Twitter rant

LISTEN NOW: MARK Waugh reckons David Warner should not be getting involved in Twitter stoushes and must learn from his weekend rant.

UPDATE: FORMER Test batsman Mark Waugh says David Warner should not be getting involved in Twitter stoushes and must learn from his weekend rant.

Warner faces a disciplinary hearing for his vitriolic social media outburst at respected News Limited sportswriters Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn.

Speaking on SEN radio this morning, Waugh said that although Warner's public hissy fit was "no big deal" the incident was "not a good look" for Australia's fiery opening batsman.

No hard feelings after outburst

"I think it's the second or third time he's tweeted out some words which haven't been that smart,” Waugh said.

“He's got to learn from this. It's not the ideal situation you want to see from supposedly one of your senior players or one of the most important players in your squad.

"He's probably got to get a thicker skin really."

Waugh said players can't expect to be told "how great you are every day of the week".

"There's times you've got to cop the good with the bad and I think (Warner)'s had problems doing that so far in his career," Waugh said.

Waugh pointed to the fact that a lack of senior players such as Mike Hussey and Ricky Ponting in Australia's squad "who can knock things on the head" could be hurting team culture and players' attitudes.

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"Young players are getting a lot of money and getting there pretty easily aren't they? They're getting to the top without having to do a whole lot of hard work, so maybe they're getting ahead of themselves," Waugh said.

“There's probably certain players who need to pull their heads in and concentrate on cricket.

"Warner has only played 19 tests. He shouldn't even worry about these sorts of things. He should just be concentrating on his cricket."

Warner, whose captaincy aspirations have taken a hit as a result of the incident, was yesterday reported for breaching Cricket Australia's code of behaviour.

The governing body will today decide a date for the hearing ahead of this week's departure of the Ashes squad.

Early on Saturday from India, where he is playing for the Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League, Warner launched a Twitter tirade in response to a column by Craddock, prompted by the arrest of three IPL players on allegations of spot-fixing.

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Warner took to Twitter to label Craddock a "jealous p----" among other insults. Conn, The Courier-Mail's chief cricket writer, responded on Twitter with a defence of the column and cricket writers.

Warner then called Conn an "old fart", saying "all you do is talk s--- as well".

On Saturday night, a seemingly remorseful Warner sent Conn a text message, in which he claimed not to have meant to get personal but that he was "annoyed" a photo of him accompanied the story in one newspaper.

In February 2011, Warner and Tasmanian bowler Brett Geeves were reprimanded over a fiery Twitter exchange that included Warner calling Geeves a "c--k".

From his weekend outburst, Warner is alleged to have breached rule six of CA's code of behaviour: "that players and officials must not engage in behaviour unbecoming to a representative player or official that could (a) bring them or the game of cricket into disrepute or (b) be harmful to the interests of cricket."

- by Marco Monteverde and Patrick Horan