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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Warner credits wife for World Cup success

by

Vinode Mamchan, in England
2234 days ago
20190612
Australia's David Warner, right, celebrates after reaching his hundred against Pakistan during the ICC World Cup match at the County Ground in Taunton, England, Wednesday. Warner scored 107 as Australia won by 41 runs.

Australia's David Warner, right, celebrates after reaching his hundred against Pakistan during the ICC World Cup match at the County Ground in Taunton, England, Wednesday. Warner scored 107 as Australia won by 41 runs.

AP

In the few weeks im­me­di­ate­ly af­ter he was banned for his role in the ball tam­per­ing scan­dal dur­ing Aus­tralia's Test against South Africa in Cape Town last year, David Warn­er felt like not even get­ting off the bed.

Wednes­day, how­ev­er, he felt like he was back on top of the world af­ter scor­ing his first hun­dred for the Aussies in two years, al­so at a World Cup. The left-han­der scored 107 as Aus­tralia de­feat­ed Pak­istan by 41 runs in their ICC World Cup en­counter at the Coun­ty Ground at Taunton.

He was full of praise for his wife Can­dice af­ter his match-win­ning in­nings.

“I was al­ways com­ing back to in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et if se­lect­ed. The thing that kept me go­ing was my wife and two young kids. I got great sup­port at home from the fam­i­ly. My wife at home, she’s been my rock - she’s un­be­liev­able, dis­ci­plined, self­less," Warn­er said.

“I hold a lot of cred­it to her, she’s a strong woman. She got me out of bed a lot in those first 12 weeks and got me back run­ning and train­ing as hard as I could. Just to main­tain my lev­el of fit­ness and hard work, she nailed that in­to me."

Warn­er ad­mit­ted, how­ev­er, that he was wor­ried he might have not got­ten an­oth­er hun­dred for his coun­try.

“Yes, def­i­nite­ly, there was al­ways that go­ing through my mind,” nod­ded the left-han­der when asked about the pos­si­bil­i­ty that his hun­dred in the Box­ing Day Test against Eng­land in De­cem­ber 2017 might have been his last in the bag­gy green.

“That’s what drove me to keep be­ing as fit as I can, to keep scor­ing as many runs as I can in the Twen­ty20 tour­na­ments I played in, and re­al­ly en­joy play­ing in grade crick­et.

“I think to go through these tough times and re­group­ing put my­self in the best way to come back in­to in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et. Per­son­al­ly, of course, it’s a great thing to get this hun­dred. Ob­vi­ous­ly, it’s been a long time com­ing.”


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