David Warner cricketer: Brad Haddin remarks dropping Warner from Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL wasn’t a Cricket decision

Gurpreet Singh | 15/11/2021
David Warner cricketer: Brad Haddin remarks dropping Warner from Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL wasn't a Cricket decision

David Warner cricketer: Brad Haddin exclaims dropping Warner from IPL franchise Sunrisers Hyderabad wasn’t a Cricket related decision

Australia’s opening batter and 2021 T20 World Cup’s ‘Player of the Tournament’- David Warner has been hitting the headlines ever since he was dropped from his IPL franchise- Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) after a couple of poor performances in the UAE leg of the tournament this year.

After a string of brilliant performances in the just concluded T20 World Cup, including a match-winning knock of 53 (38) in the Final versus New Zealand, debates around him being dropped by the SRH management this year are in to the fore.

Addressing the subject at hand and the discussions around it, former Australia wicketkeeper-batter and SRH assistant coach- Brad Haddin has now shed light on the same.

Brad Haddin exclaims the coaching staff had no role

Speaking at ‘The Grade Cricketer’ podcast post Australia’s maiden T20 World Cup title win, Haddin exclaimed that the reason to drop the Southpaw from the side (SRH) was not a Cricket-related one, and that the coaching staff had no role in the decision-making process.

“It wasn’t a cricket decision that he wasn’t playing. The circumstances were out of all our control. The coaching staff had no role in him not playing”, said Brad Haddin upon being asked whether what happened between the backstage of the IPL to this David Warner (in the World Cup).

He also opined that Warner was not out of form, but short of match practice. He in fact had a long COVID-19 break and also missed Australia’s tours of West Indies and Bangladesh.

Haddin’s words perhaps suggest that it was more of a decision by the owners of the franchise (SRH) as perhaps they no longer have faith in the services of the man who led them to their maiden and the only title win in the year 2016.

It also reflects the mood of the owners of the franchise that they perhaps are looking for a new face to lead the team ahead of the mega auctions set to take place in the beginning of next year.

It is worth mentioning that Warner’s form had been a huge talking point ahead of the World Cup with the veteran dropped by Sunrisers Hyderabad for the second time this year during the second leg of the IPL, after scores of 0 and 2 when the tournament resumed in the UAE in September.

 

 

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Gurpreet Singh

Gurpreet Singh is a Cricket writer at The Sportsrush. His platonic relationship with sports had always been there since childhood, but Cricket managed to strike a special, intimate nerve of his heart. Although his initial dream of playing the sport at the highest level couldn't come to fruition, Gurpreet did represent the state of Jharkhand at the under-14 level. However, almost like taking a pledge to never let the undying passion for Cricket fade away even a tad, he made sure to continue the love relationship by assigning the field of journalism as an indirect Cupid. He thus, first finished his bachelor's in journalism and then pursued the PG Diploma course in English journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC). Soon after and since 2019, he has been working at The Sportsrush. Apart from sports, he takes keen interest in politics, and in understanding women and gender-related issues.

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