David Warner Grade Cricket: Walks off in the middle of the innings

Dixit Bhargav | 27/10/2018
David Warner Grade Cricket

David Warner Grade Cricket: Banned Australian opening batsman was involved in another controversy while playing Grade Cricket.

David Warner, Australia’s opening batsman who is currently serving a 12-month ban for the infamous ball tampering incident at Cape Town earlier this year, walked-off mid-innings after an alleged sledge.

Playing for Randwick-Petersham against Western Suburbs at Pratten Park in Sydney, Warner left the field when he was on 35. In which was a peculiar incident, it allured limelight on Warner for not the right reasons yet again.

It is alleged that Jason Hughes, elder brother of Phillip Hughes, had sledged Warner on the ground. If reports are to be believed, Hughes had called Warner a ‘disgrace’, reacting to which Warner left the field only to return back to score 157 in the match.

With the opposition not objecting to Warner returning to the field after an improved state of mind and a slight ‘halt’, birthday boy Warner showed signs of form by scoring a mammoth score.

Neither Warner nor any of the club member of either sides spoke to the media regarding the incident. It is said that the umpires are highly unlikely to report the incident and both the clubs are keen at ‘moving on’.

Having played for a couple of T20 franchises this year, Warner has recently signed with Sylhet Sixers in the upcoming edition of the Bangladesh Premier League. The tournament will begin on January 5 next year.

Warner’s ban will culminate in March after which he will be able to play in the Indian Premier League and the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.

Read some of the recent Twitter reactions on Warner below:

 

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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