Chris Rogers says he didn't deliberately set out to offend his former Western Australian team-mates when he kissed the Victorian badge on his helmet after scoring the second of two hundreds in the Bushrangers' Sheffield Shield win over WA.
After scoring 115 in the first innings, Rogers' intimate knowledge of the WACA wicket helped him plunder more runs against the Warriors on the final day, his 147 not out helping Victoria secure a six-wicket win with seven balls to spare.
However some of his former team-mates felt he was adding insult to injury when he kissed the badge on his helmet, especially as Rogers defected to Victoria under acrimonious circumstances at the end of last season after disagreeing with senior WACA figures over not being selected for WA's one-day side.
Rogers, though, said this was not the case.
"I'm not really a badge kisser but I just felt that was probably appropriate today," he said.
"But in the same breath, I think maybe the WA guys were disappointed but so be it."
"I'm still very friendly with the guys and in many respects I still feel a bit part of it but I've moved on and so have they and that's the way it is."
"I was probably a little bit bitter but that was last year. I'm not anymore and, I'm just really enjoying it and playing for Victoria and winning and being part of it."
After Western Australia declared at 8-404, setting the Bushrangers a target of 318 from 74 overs to win the contest, Rogers led the way in the run chase.
Although Victoria lost Nick Jewell (0) and Rob Quiney (18) cheaply, man-of-the-match Rogers and David Hussey (87) produced a scintillating 168-run partnership from 223 balls to set up the victory, before the opener and Andrew McDonald (60) saw the visitors home.
"Coming here, the guys probably don't know this wicket as well as I do," he said.
"So I thought it was probably pretty important that I stood up this game."
"If it was going to be any game I do well, then (it was) this one for the side, so that was probably as satisfying as anything."
The two centuries takes Rogers' tally for the season to 621 runs overall at an average of 88.7, five runs ahead of South Australian batsman Michael Klinger, but he was very nearly beaten for the man-of-the-match award by Warriors skipper Marcus North, who also hit centuries in each innings.
It's only the second time in Australian domestic history that players from opposing sides have both hit two tons in the same match, with Queensland's Matthew Hayden and South Australia's Paul Nobes having achieved the feat at the Adelaide Oval in the 1993/94 summer.
North, though, was simply disappointed his bowlers couldn't threaten Rogers' wicket over two chanceless innings as his side remains in third position on the table with 12 points, despite not gaining any points from the last three Shield matches.
"The disappointing thing is that we know this guy inside out and we probably didn't bowl as well as we should have to him and he capitalised on it," North said.
"I guess the other angle is, he knew our bowlers inside out and he knows this wicket very well and he's in good form ... he played very well."