David Warner is a former captain of the Australian national cricket team and a sportsperson who competes for Australia on the international cricket stage. However, he has captained just limited-overs cricket forms, such as Twenty20 (T20) and one-day internationals (ODIs). Furthermore, he is a member of the teams that compete in the domestic Australian competitions represented by the ‘New South Wales’ and the ‘Sydney Thunder’.
David began his long and illustrious career in cricket when he was a little boy. He was born and reared in Sydney, New South Wales. He was a part of the Australian under-19 cricket squad after playing cricket throughout his whole school career. David was a player who excelled in both domestic and first-class competitions during his late adolescent years. He continued to play and perform incredibly well. The fact that he performed so well in the “KFC Big Bash” competition was another factor that led to his selection for the Australian national squad.
It was against South Africa that he made his debut in both the Twenty20 International (T20I) and One-Day International (ODI) formats in January of 2009. At the outset, it was believed that his batting style was more suited to the limited-overs game. Therefore, he did not make his debut in a test match until 2011, when he played against New Zealand. The list of the finest batters in the world that David is routinely included in is extensive.
David Warner Biography
Whether he is playing for his national team or his ‘Indian Premier League side, ‘Sunrisers Hyderabad,’ the fans are huge admirers of him because of his left-handed batting technique, which provides him with a lot of power and hits. His participation in an incident involving ball tampering resulted in a one-year suspension from playing international cricket in March of 2018.
In Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales, on October 27, 1986, David Warner came into the world as David Andrew Warner. His parents, Howard and Lorraine Warner, were his parents. He spent his childhood with his elder brother, Steve. As a result of their father’s employment in a factory, their family belonged to the lower middle class. When it came to meeting their children’s fundamental requirements, David’s parents were scarcely successful.
David’s first bat was a ‘SS Jumbo’, which he received when he was ten years old. He used it with great care since his family would not have been able to buy a new bat if anything had happened to the one he had. Cricket was a sport that David continued to play throughout his youth and into his teenage years. Although David was still attending school, he began working part-time while he was living in an apartment that was owned by the Housing Commission.
During the weekends, he worked as a newspaper vendor to enable him to attend school camps.
Despite all that prevented him from achieving his goals, he continued to play cricket. In addition to being a member of the school team, he attended the “Randwick Boys High School” for his education.
It was getting old for his school coach to deal with him hitting the ball in the air, even though he is renowned for being a left-handed hitter who hits hard.
He instructed David to use his right hand while batting, but David decided to follow the advice of his mother and batted with his left hand instead. During his time with the ‘Sydney Coastal Cricket Club, he established a new record for the highest-scoring batsman for the under-16 squad. When he was 16 years old, he was also a member of the club known as “Eastern Suburbs.” Approximately during the same time, he was chosen to be a member of the Australian under-19 squad that went on tour inside Sri Lanka.
Batting & Fielding Stats
YEAR | MAT | NO | RUNS | HS | AVG | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4S | 6S | CT | ST |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Career | 177 | 22 | 6426 | 126 | 41.46 | 4593 | 139.91 | 4 | 61 | 649 | 228 | 79 | 0 |
2024 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 29 | 29.00 | 21 | 138.10 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
2023 | 14 | 0 | 516 | 86 | 36.86 | 392 | 131.63 | 0 | 6 | 69 | 10 | 7 | 0 |
2022 | 12 | 3 | 432 | 92* | 48.00 | 287 | 150.52 | 0 | 5 | 52 | 15 | 6 | 0 |
2021 | 8 | 0 | 195 | 57 | 24.37 | 181 | 107.73 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
2020 | 16 | 2 | 548 | 85* | 39.14 | 407 | 134.64 | 0 | 4 | 52 | 14 | 12 | 0 |
2019 | 12 | 2 | 692 | 100* | 69.20 | 481 | 143.86 | 1 | 8 | 57 | 21 | 2 | 0 |
2017 | 14 | 3 | 641 | 126 | 58.27 | 452 | 141.81 | 1 | 4 | 63 | 26 | 10 | 0 |
2016 | 17 | 3 | 848 | 93* | 60.57 | 560 | 151.42 | 0 | 9 | 88 | 31 | 4 | 0 |
2015 | 14 | 1 | 562 | 91 | 43.23 | 359 | 156.54 | 0 | 7 | 65 | 21 | 8 | 0 |
2014 | 14 | 3 | 528 | 90 | 48.00 | 375 | 140.80 | 0 | 6 | 39 | 24 | 8 | 0 |
2013 | 16 | 3 | 410 | 77 | 31.53 | 323 | 126.93 | 0 | 4 | 41 | 14 | 6 | 0 |
2012 | 8 | 1 | 256 | 109* | 36.57 | 156 | 164.10 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 14 | 1 | 0 |
2011 | 13 | 0 | 324 | 77 | 24.92 | 276 | 117.39 | 0 | 3 | 34 | 11 | 4 | 0 |
2010 | 11 | 1 | 282 | 107* | 28.20 | 191 | 147.64 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 14 | 8 | 0 |
2009 | 7 | 0 | 163 | 51 | 23.29 | 132 | 123.48 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Bowling
YEAR | MAT | BALLS | RUNS | WKTS | BBM | AVE | ECON | SR | 4W | 5W |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Career | 177 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0/2 | – | 12.00 | – | 0 | 0 |
2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
2023 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
2022 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
2021 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
2020 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0/2 | – | 12.00 | – | 0 | 0 |
2019 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
2017 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
2016 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
2015 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
2014 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
2013 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
2012 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
2011 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
2010 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
2009 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
In the latter part of the 2010s, his notoriety increased to the point that he was being considered for selection to the national squad, even though he had never participated in a first-class match. By the year 2008, David had already started playing cricket for the New South Wales domestic team. For the Australian national team, David has previously competed in international matches before making his debut in the first-class competition in March of 2009. Through this accomplishment, he became the first Australian cricketer in the history of the sport to play an international match for his national side without ever having participated in a single first-class match.
As part of his participation in domestic events for the team known as “New South Wales,” David amassed 197 runs off of 141 balls, hitting 20 fours and 10 sixes. In the history of one-day domestic cricket in Australia, this was the greatest individual score that there has ever been. In January 2009, David made his debut for the international team in a Twenty20 match against South Africa. This match took place during South Africa’s national tour of Australia.
With seven fours and six sixes, he scored 89 runs off of 43 balls in his maiden encounter. He also hit seven fours. In addition to that, he achieved the second-fastest half-century in a Twenty20 game. In the same month, David began his one-day international career by playing against South Africa. He was a regular member of the Australian limited-overs team as a result of his consistently excellent performances. On the other hand, given that the highest potential of cricket players is fulfilled by their performance in the Test cricket format, he had not yet shown his capacity to compete.
In December 2011, he made his debut in a test match against New Zealand in Brisbane. There was a match that was a part of the competition known as the “Trans-Tasman Trophy,” and he was granted the opportunity to play since another hard-hitter named Shane Watson was injured. He scored three runs in the first inning of the game. He had a second inning in which he scored the winning runs and was unblemished by the opposition, scoring 12 runs.
It was during the same series against New Zealand that he achieved his first century in a test match. He scored an undefeated 123 in the second inning of the match. Since that time, he has participated in 74 Test matches for Australia, during which he has scored 6,363 runs, with an average of 48.20 runs scored against each innings. Additionally, he has scored a total of 21 centuries and 29 half-centuries, with his greatest score being 253.