David Warner

David Andrew Warner (born 27 October 1986) is an Australian T20I international cricketer and a former Test vice-captain.

A left-handed opening batsman, Warner is the first Australian cricketer in 132 years to be selected for the national team in any format without experience in first-class cricket.

He plays for New South Wales and Sydney Thunder in domestic cricket.

David Warner was born on 27 October 1986 in Paddington, a suburb in eastern Sydney.

At the age of 13, he was asked by his coach to switch to right-handed batting because he kept hitting the ball in the air.

However his mother, Lorraine Warner (née Orange), encouraged him to return to batting left-handed and he broke the under-16's run-scoring record for the Sydney Coastal Cricket Club.

He then made his first grade debut for the Eastern Suburbs club at the age of 15 and later toured Sri Lanka with the Australian under-19s and earned a rookie contract with the state team.

Warner grew up in a housing commission estate in Matraville in Sydney’s south-east and attended Matraville Public School and Randwick Boys High School.

On 29 November 2008, Warner hit his first domestic One Day century for New South Wales with a score of 165* against Tasmania at Hurstville Oval in Sydney.

This innings got him the record of the highest one day score by a Blues player.

In the reverse fixture at Hobart, he backed it up with a 54-ball 97 to narrowly miss the record for the fastest ever century in Australian domestic cricket.

Warner made his first-class debut playing for New South Wales against Western Australia in the final match of the 2008–09 Sheffield Shield season at the Sydney Cricket Ground on 5–8 March 2009.

Batting only once and coming in at number six in the batting order, Warner scored 42 runs off 48 deliveries.

While playing for New South Wales, Warner broke the record for the highest Australian one-day domestic score.

His score of 197 came off just 141 balls and included 20 fours and 10 sixes, surpassing Jimmy Maher's previous record of 187.

In 2009, Warner set a new record for the fastest half-century scored in the Australian domestic Twenty20 cricket, completing his 50 in 18 balls against Tasmania.

In the first season of the newly re-vamped Big Bash League, Warner was named as captain for the Sydney Thunder and scored 102 not out from 51 balls in his first match for the team.

Warner was signed by Delhi Daredevils in 2009, playing for the team until 2013.

Warner played for Sydney Sixers in 2012–13 season.

Warner has been one of the most successful overseas batsmen in the Indian Premier League, scoring over 6,000 runs and winning the Orange Cap award for the highest scoring batter in a season three times.

Following the 2014 IPL auction, however, he moved to Sunrisers Hyderabad for US$880,000.

Warner was a prominent member of the victorious Australian squad of the 2015 Cricket World Cup, the 2021 T20 World Cup, where he was the Player of the Tournament, the 2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship, and the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup.

In 2015, he was appointed captain of the team and ended the season as the tournament's leading run scorer.

He continued as captain in 2016, leading the team to its first championship, scoring 69 runs from 38 balls in the final against Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Warner finished the season with 848 runs, the second highest in the tournament.

In January 2017, he became the fourth player to win the Allan Border Medal more than once and to win the award in consecutive years.

On 28 September 2017, he played in his 100th One Day International (ODI).

In 2017, Warner scored 126 runs against Kolkata Knight Riders, breaking his previous career highest IPL score of 109 not out.

He finished the season as the leading run scorer, and was awarded the Orange cap for the second time.

In March 2018, following a preliminary investigation into ball tampering by the Australian team in the third match of their Test series against South Africa, Warner was suspended and charged with bringing the game into disrepute.

Following a board meeting later in the month, Cricket Australia banned Warner from all international and domestic cricket in Australia for one year, and from any leadership positions permanently.

In January 2024, Warner played his final Test match for Australia and also announced his retirement from ODI cricket.

After having been named as captain again for the 2018 season, Warner stepped down from the role following ball tampering affair in South Africa and the Board of Control for Cricket in India banned him from playing during the season.

He returned to the team in 2019, scoring 85 runs in his first match before following this with an unbeaten century against Royal Challengers Bangalore two days later.

He finished the season as the leading run scorer with 692 runs despite leaving the team after due to Australia's World Cup preparations.

In February 2020, Warner was reinstated as captain, replacing Kane Williamson.

In October he became the first overseas player and fourth overall to score over 5,000 runs in the IPL, achieving the milestone in 135 innings, the fastest to do so.

In 2021 Warner was replaced as captain by Williamson after six matches, with the side winning only one match.

In the second stage of the tournament he was dropped from the team after two matches.

The team's assistant coach Brad Haddin later revealed that the decision to drop him was not a cricket decision.