Root warns Warner of hot UK reception

England Test captain Joe Root says David Warner will need to be thick-skinned and expect a hostile environment if he features in next year's Ashes.

Warner is currently serving a one-year ban from state and international cricket following his role in the sandpaper scandal in South Africa, but hit the headlines again while playing club cricket in Sydney last weekend.

He left the field mid-innings after being sledged by an opponent during a Premier Cricket match. Warner is understood to have found certain comments personal and hurtful but returned to continue his innings and went on to make a century.

The 32-year-old's ban ends in time for him to restart his international career in England in 2019, if selected, and Root says a hot atmosphere would almost certainly greet the Australian.

"I'm sure he will have to accustom himself to what might be a slightly hostile environment from the English public, but we'll have to wait and see what happens when he comes over in the summer, if he does," said Root.

"I wouldn't wish that upon anyone, but time will tell as to what happens in the future."

Root, who was involved in an infamous altercation with Warner in a Birmingham bar during the 2013 Champions Trophy, said he had never felt the need to leave the field of play due to verbal abuse.

"You don't know what was said and you don't know what was involved and what happened out there," said Root.

"It is something you don't see very often, but unless you know exactly what went on out there you can't say if it was a justified thing or not."

The England captain's comments come as former players from Australia's oldest on-field rival commented in the wake of publication of the cultural review into Australian cricket following the Cape Town incident.

Former captain Michael Atherton said the report contained warnings for cricket administrators across the globe.

"It is a fascinating report, one that is worthy of more detailed consideration and should be read by every administrator in every governing body because it asks fundamental questions of what sport is about," Atherton wrote in The Times.

"CA is seen as an organisation that knows the price of everything but the value of nothing, one that views sport as a business where value is to be found in dollars and cents rather than the ties that bind and in the connections, memories and values that underpin a special game.

"Cricket, in other words, is a sport and not a business and needs to be administered as such. Cricket is a game where you win some and lose some and needs to be played as such."

The cultural review process also included a concurrent player review led by ex-Test opener Rick McCosker and Director of the Centre for Ethical Leadership, Peter Collins, with support from current and former players George Bailey, Pat Cummins, Rachael Haynes, Tim Paine, Justin Langer and Shane Watson.

That review resulted in the drafting of a "Players' Pact", which was released on Monday by Paine and Josh Hazlewood.

Former England captain Michael Vaughan said it was "cringeworthy".

"Just play good, hard, fair cricket and win a few games is all that's required," wrote Vaughan, who will be a Fox Cricket commentator this summer.

Another former captain in Kevin Pietersen, who played four seasons with the Melbourne Stars in the BBL, renewed his row with former Australia coach Darren Lehmann.

Lehmann, who was cleared of any involvement in the ball tampering scandal by CA's investigation, resigned as coach of the national men's team in March.

Lehmann and Pietersen first clashed on social media last year when the coach wrote it was "time for the Stars to move KP on".