Ricky Ponting turns on Mark Taylor in Australian cricket's ongoing feud It's the saga that has overshadowed the build-up to the Ashes series and now former Aussie skipper Mark Taylor has had his say on the feud between Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke. Michael Clarke and Ricky Ponting have apparently settled their feud, but now Ponting is angry at former captain Mark Taylor. FORMER Australian captain Ricky Ponting today said he was "offended" after Mark Taylor blasted his feud with Michael Clarke, saying it should have stayed in the dressing room. Current skipper Clarke was reportedly furious when he learned ex-captain Ponting's autobiography, released last week, contained concerns about his then-deputy's attitude. The book also offers an unfavourable appraisal of Clarke's ill-fated relationship with bikini model Lara Bingle, which ended in 2010 when he flew back from a tour of New Zealand to sort out his private life. Taylor, who was captain from 1994 to 1999 and is now a Cricket Australia director, said the players' differences should have stayed behind closed doors. "The disappointing thing for me was that this wasn't left in the change-room and it wasn't sorted out in the change-room," he told commercial radio late yesterday. Ponting said he was offended by the accusation that he had broken the sanctity of the Australian team change room, claiming the events were already public knowledge. "I've just given my side of it," he told a breakfast function in Perth, Australian Associated Press reported, adding that he had contacted Clarke yesterday and they had made up. I was actually really offended that Mark would come out and say that I would break what happens in the sanctuary in the change room. That's not me. "I'm not out doing things like this to sell books," he added. Australian cricket is dear for me. It's been my life for 20-odd years. Taylor said Ponting, who assumed the captaincy in 2003 from Steve Waugh, was entitled to write his book "but I'm a little sick of hearing all of it." In his book, Ponting, who retired from international cricket in December 2012, suggested Clarke was not a team man "It never worried me if a bloke didn't want a drink in the dressing room," wrote Ponting, himself a reformed boozer.