BRIAN Lara reported Worcestershire's Glenn McGrath for spitting the last time they met in a Test match and the Australian paceman has not forgiven him.
"As far as I'm concerned it's a bit more personal this summer due to the last time we came up against each other," McGrath said in Sydney's Sunday Telegraph.
After frustrating Lara in the last Test in Antigua last year McGrath got the West Indian out for seven.
"He went to the match referee and reported me for spitting. What eventuated was I got fined.
"Nobody even noticed it until Brian kicked up a stink. It bites me that he initiated it and that something could come out of nothing."
The first Test starts on Thursday in Brisbane.
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