In an interview with 60 minutes, Clarke detailed the circumstances surrounding one of the most infamous dust-ups in Australian cricket history.

The incident happened following Australia’s win over South Africa at the SCG in 2009.

Clarke, who was vice-captain at the time, wanted the team song sung as soon as possible so he could leave the ground and attend a function.

“I think a lot of us were getting wound up,” Clarke said. “So I think I had every reason to be pissed off. But I don’t think my language was appropriate to Kato.”

Katich took exception to Clarke’s impatience and as the official leader of Australia’s victory song, ‘Under the Southern Cross I Stand’, and believed Clarke should have remained.

 “There was a little bit of a rush that night to go onto the next venue,” Katich told ABC Grand Stand last year.

“Michael Hussey was particularly keen to stay in the dressing rooms, Matty Hayden was sitting down there in what turned out to be his last Test match. He wanted to savour the moment in those SCG dressing rooms.

“As we all know there was a little bit of a disagreement in terms of when that timing should be, as a result of that I got a little bit ... it bugged me.”

Clarke said he knew Hayden was dirty on him following the incident.

“It turned out, I found out four days later, that Matthew Hayden was going to retire after that Test match,” Clarke told 60 Minutes. “So I think Haydos was pissed off as well that that happened in his last Test.”