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Australia batting excellent David Warner’s 15-year-long global profession, dotted with marvelous accomplishments and debates in equivalent procedure, has actually concerned an anti-climactic end after Afghanistan beat Bangladesh, getting rid of the previous champs from the T20 World Cup at the Super Eight stage. Australia, the 2021 champs, ended up at 3rd location in the Super 8s Group 1 table with simply 2 points – from the win versus Bangladesh. They had actually suffered a stunning loss to Afghanistan and a humbling defeat to India.
The 37-year-old Warner, who made his worldwide launching in January 2009 in a T20I match, hence made a subtle exit from global cricket with Australia’s 24-run loss to India on June 24 at Gros Islet being his last match.
There was no guard of honour or standing ovation, befitting among Australia’s all-time excellent batters. He made 6 run 6 balls in the match, edging Arshdeep Singh as Suryakumar Yadav took a low catch. He strolled off the pitch with his head down, not understanding whether that was his last video game.
Warner’s retirement has actually been progressive. He played his last ODI match worldwide Cup last win over India in November 2023 and his last Test versus Pakistan in January. He has actually long indicated that this T20 World Cup would be his last competition.
He retires as Australia’s greatest scorer and seventh-most respected batter on the planet in T20 format with 3,277 runs from 110 matches, at approximately 33.43 and strike rate of 142.47. He scored one hundred and 28 fifties in the fastest format.
From 112 Tests, he has actually scored 8,786 perform at approximately 44.59 with 26 hundreds and 37 fifties in between 2011 and 2024. He likewise scored 6,932 runs from 161 ODI matches at approximately 45.30 with the aid of 22 centuries and 33 half centuries.
Warner, who has 49 centuries throughout formats and near 19,000 runs in worldwide cricket, had actually acknowledged that his name will permanently be connected to the sandpaper gate scandal that occurred at Newlands, Cape Town throughout a Test match versus South Africa in 2018.
Warner’s participation in the scandal in the Newlands Test, when Cameron Bancroft utilized sandpaper to scuff the ball made him a 1 year restriction, the very same penalty as that of the-then skipper Steven Smith.
Warner was likewise prohibited for life from taking any management function in the Australian cricket setup.
“I believe it’s going to be inescapable that when individuals discuss me in 20 or 30 years’ time, there will constantly be that sandpaper scandal,” he stated recently at North Sound ahead of Australia’s Super 8 clash versus Bangladesh.
“But for me, if they’re genuine cricket tragics and they like cricket, (along with) my closest advocates, they will constantly see me as that cricketer – somebody who attempted to alter the video game.
“Someone who attempted to follow in the steps of the openers before me and attempt and score perform at a fantastic pace and modification Test cricket in a manner.”
Warner was likewise a part of the IPL side Sunrisers Hyderabad from 2014 till 2021, and led the franchise to its only title in 2016.