In his newly-released autobiography My Family’s Keeper, former Australian wicket-keeper Brad Haddin opened up on his turbulent relationship with ex-Australia head coach Mickey Arthur.

Accusing Arthur of being deceitful, the retired gloveman said he rebuked the former coach twice for calling him the best wicket-keeper-batsman in Australia but still selecting Mathew Wade in the playing eleven.

Haddin revealed he did not react to Arthur’s comments on the first occasion but could not stop himself when Arthur told him the same thing before the last Test of the 2013 series in India and then gave the nod to Wade to stand behind the wickets.

Haddin said:“I’d let it go when he said that in Adelaide but this time it was hard to cop,” Haddin writes of Arthur, the current Pakistan coach who returns to Australia this month for the three-Test series beginning December 15.

“I said, ‘Mate, you’re kidding. I’ve had enough of this. You’ve just told me that I’m the best player in my position and you’re not picking me for a Test match. You’ve got this all wrong. I’m out. Leave me alone.’ “I walked away from him past Nathan Lyon, who’d been within earshot of the whole exchange. He said a quiet, ‘Good work, Hadds,’ as I went by.”

Revealing another incident, Haddin said he was left shell-shocked when despite becoming the first-choice wicket-keeper and the vice-captain of the team, Arthur during a discussion with Haddin on the possible lineup for the first Ashes Test in 2013, told the wicket-keeper ‘And just assume that you’re in the team’.

Expressing his surprise, Haddin wrote:“That was a completely bizarre thing to say.Everyone from (selection chairman) John Inverarity down had repeatedly made it plain in public and in private that I was the Australian team’s Test wicketkeeper. Not to mention the fact that I was vice-captain! “I had no idea what he was trying to get at, but once again I didn’t have the time or interest to figure it out. I said, ‘Mate, I can’t deal with this’, and left him to it.”