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David Warner
- Age
- 40y 16d
- Bats
- Left-hand
- From
- Paddington
- Age
- 40y 16d
- Bats
- Left-hand
- From
- Paddington
David Warner reached international cricket without playing a single first-class game, and his first outing was a T20I against South Africa in which he hit 89 from 43 balls, shortly after Australia lost a home Test series in 2008-09. An ODI debut against the same side in Hobart soon followed, and he made 69 in his second match. A dip in form cost him his place for a while before he won it back, and he was one of Australia's few positives when they went out in the first round of the 2009 World T20.
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His Test career began against New Zealand in 2011 at the Gabba. In Hobart he scored a hundred and carried his bat, the 13th Australian opener to do so. He later made 180 against India at the WACA and 119 against South Africa in Adelaide in 2012. In 2013 he tried to punch Joe Root during the Champions Trophy, was fined 7,000 pounds and was banned until the first Ashes Test. He then topped the run charts in the 2013-14 Ashes with 523 runs at 58.11, and against South Africa he made 543 runs at 90.50 to be named Man of the Series.
At the 2015 World Cup he made 345 runs, including 178 against Afghanistan. During the 2018 tour of South Africa he was named in the Cape Town ball-tampering affair alongside Steve Smith and Cameron Bancroft, and Cricket Australia banned him for a year. He came back strongly at the 2019 World Cup, scoring 647 runs with hundreds against Pakistan, Bangladesh and South Africa, second only to Rohit Sharma. The 2019 Ashes brought just 95 runs in 10 innings, with Stuart Broad dismissing him 7 times, but he soon hit a maiden T20I hundred against Sri Lanka and an unbeaten 335 against Pakistan at Adelaide.
He was Player of the Tournament as Australia won the 2021 T20 World Cup, scoring 289 runs including a fifty in the final, though he managed only 44 runs in 2022. A double hundred against South Africa in the 2022 Boxing Day Test stood out amid a leaner spell, yet he was picked for the 2023 World Cup.
In the IPL he has played for Delhi Daredevils, Sunrisers Hyderabad and Delhi Capitals, and he became the first overseas batter to reach 5000 runs in the competition. He captained Sunrisers to the 2016 title, making 69 from 38 balls in the final against RCB, and won the Orange Cap in 2015, 2017 and 2019. He led Delhi Capitals in 2023 after Rishabh Pant was injured in a car crash.
