[Cricket] David Warner

[PeterT]

Just watching his last innings, the commentators are making him sound like Mother Theresa.

I would have expected that from Kerry O’Keefe but even Isa Guha is salivating about him ‘he’s a great character, we need more characters in the game’! Hmm, that’s one word for him I suppose.

What gets me is that he has apparently said he doesn’t regret anything he did. So that’s alright then.

It does sound like the general public there are not totally convinced though:

Dave Warner: Australia still divided over legacy

As the batsman retires, his role in the nation's biggest sporting scandal looms large.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Eeyore]

I'd forgotten about the sandpaper affair. Cricket is littered with incidents like that, many going unnoticed and unreported. Mike Atherton got off lightly in 1994. There was John Lever's Vaseline trick years before. Warner did the time for it and would have gone through a lot.

We never saw the best of him here, and I think he probably hung around longer than he should have.

 

[jcdenton08]

I liked him in The Omen

 

[Seagull on the Hill]

Rat faced cheating ****!
Sandpapergate was the first time he got caught cheating, but I doubt that it was the first time he had actually cheated.
The same applies to Steve Smith.

 

[Chicken Run]

The cheating rat had his baggy green stolen, oh well karma eh

 

[hans kraay fan club]

The cheating rat had his baggy green stolen, oh well karma eh

He got it back.

 

[Brian Fantana]

The Ashes was a much better spectacle in recent years for his presence in the team, IMO. The dominance that Broad had over him produced some brilliant moments.

 

[fly high]

is a first class wanker.

 

[London Irish]

Real character, it’s why you watch sport to be engaged and provoked

 

[A1X]

I’m not interested in him or anything he does unless and until he tells us what was really going on at Newlands back in 2018, and indeed what was going on in the year leading up to that to reach that moment

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Real character, it’s why you watch sport to be engaged and provoked

Consider me provoked. Complete dick.

 

[Pevenseagull]

If he was football he'd be Chelsea.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Massive arsehole, and I'm not even bothered by the sandpaper thing.
This was earlier on in the same series in South Africa.

https://www.news.com.au/sport/cricket/warner-and-de-kock-caught-in-heated-dressing-room-clash/news-story/df410a6654900eb673dd3e457aa87be4

 

[Cheshire Cat]

It's a good record for a test opener, but not that exceptional

FORMAT	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100s	50s	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	112	205	8	8786	335*	44.59

 

[Questions]

Good riddance

 

[ManOfSussex]

I liked him in The Omen

He was good in Titanic too. The way he punched Leonardo DiCaprio in the stomach I was like 'you're hard.'

 

[jcdenton08]

He was good in Titanic too. The way he punched Leonardo DiCaprio in the stomach I was like 'you're hard.'

Let's hope that tomfoolery doesn't escalate into blind ugly violence

 

[Seagull58]

He's a cheat. f*** off.

 

[ManOfSussex]

Let's hope that tomfoolery doesn't escalate into blind ugly violence

Great to see the deaf catered for by these real characters in anoraks.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Can character change?

The bit I remember about Warner was the nasty comments on Joe Root in a bar somewhere when both were early in there international careers.

Typical classless Aussie gobshite!

Sure someone can post a link ....