With The Start of 2024, Australian Cricket opener David Warner Confirmed his Retirement from ODI.

David Warner announced his retirement from one-day international cricket just before the first Test match after World Cup winnings. The Australian cricket opener said that this is a good time to quit his ODI career after Australia’s 2023 World Cup win in India, where he was the team’s higher run-scorer. David Warner has said that he will not play ODI cricket as well as test matches,  if needed, I will be available for the 2025 Champions Trophy. Australia’s cricketer David Warner has announced his retirement from ODI cricket. The 37-year-old had already announced that he would retire from his Test career after Australia and the upcoming Pakistan Test in Sydney, but Warner has now announced that he will end this in ODI cricket as well. 

Warner said it was a big achievement for India to win the World Cup this year. Warner was already considering retirement ahead of the tournament and announced his decision at a press conference on Monday ahead of his swansong at the SCG this week. He made 6,932 runs from 161 matches, Warner is recognized as the sixth-highest run scorer in Australia’s ODI history. He hit 22 centuries making him a second-highest scorer just behind  Ricky Ponting, who scored 105 more than Warner in 29 innings. The Champions Trophy is one of the only kinds of silverware missing from Warner’s CV, Australia last won it in 2009, but he was still not a key in the selection XI. He said that 

“If I’m playing decent cricket in two years and I’m around and they need someone, I’ll be available,”. Australia will win their ODI World Cup in 2027 in South Africa. Warner said that the decision to stop ODIs will develop more opportunities for the franchise to play cricket abroad. When his contract expires with Sydney Thunder at the end of this summer 2024, He also wants to play in the BBL. Warner has been playing  IPL since 2009, but engaged in a busy international schedule, he has never played in the Pakistan Super League or an England hundred. 

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, he had also played one season in the Caribbean Premier League and the Bangladesh Premier League. Warner’s final Test starts on Wednesday at his home ground, where Australia have a chance to end their 3-0 series lost against Pakistan. Some vocal critics saw the plan as self-limiting. If Warner does not come back for the Champions Trophy, he would finish with 6,932 runs at an average of 5.30 with 22 centuries. 

David Warner played his historic international debut in 2009, which made him the first man to represent Australia without a first-class match since the first Test in 1877. The blistering opener became an instant star, smashing 89 off 3 balls in T20s against South Africa’s bowling attack. Also, he played an IPL match with Delhi Daredevils, but Warner had to wait until 2011 before finally making his Test debut. 

He was a limited-overs specialist with his apparent indifference to defensive play, he proved his critics wrong by playing with the the bat in only his second Test, finishing with 123 against New Zealand. Warner then scored his way to a remarkable  180 in the third Test against India in Perth, before facing South Africa in Adelaide the following summer. Despite being sidelined on the eve of the 2013 Ashes tour because of the infamous Birmingham nightclub scene involving him and England batsman Joe Root, scoring five centuries in just eight Tests. England and South Africa. After serving a 12-month ban following the 2018 sandpaper scandal during the Cape Town Test, Warner soon found himself among the runs on his return to international cricket, finishing second in the 2019 ODI World Cup. 

After this year, Warner scored 335 against Pakistan in Adelaide, He played second to Matthew Hayden and scored  380 against Zimbabwe. Warner was an important cricketer in Australia’s first T20 World Cup win in 2021 and finished his  UAE match as a player of the tournament.

DAVID WARNER PLAYED With Teams : 

Australians, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Winnipeg Hawks, Saint Lucia Kings, Sylhet Sixers, Australia A, Finch XI, Cummins XI, Southern Brave, Australia, Delhi Capitals, New South Wales, Middlesex, Cricket Australia Chairmans XI, Sydney Thunder, Sydney Sixers.

RECORDS OF DAVID WARNER

• He scored 7 ODI centuries in a  year as the first Australian cricketer.
• In 2009, he is the first cricketer in 132 years to be selected for a national team in any format without making his debut in first-class cricket.
• Warner and Shane Watson have been the most successful opening partners in T20 International cricket history with 1108 runs. This is the highest -scorer partnership in cricket history.

They are the only opening partners to have scored over 1000 runs in T20 Internationals. Both Warner and Watson as partners scored 1154 runs in T20 International history.

•  Warner is the first Australian and sixth overall cricket player to reach 1,500 runs in T20 International Cricket Matches.
• Warner became third batsman in history of Test cricket to score centuries in both innings of a Test match thrice on 7 November 2015 just after Sunil Gavaskar and Ricky Ponting’s score.
•  Warner is the first batsman to score a triple century at Adelaide Oval with a score of 335* against Pakistan on 30 November 2019. He was the 7th  Australian batsman to score a triple century, and the fourth to do so at an Australian ground. This score saw Warner hit the target of  Sir Donald Bradman (334) and Mark Taylor (334*) to hold the second-highest Test score by an Australian batsman just behind only Matthew Hayden.
•  He scored his maiden T20 International century on 27 October 2019 which made him the third Aussie to score centuries in all three formats of the game.
• He played his 100th ODI on 28 September 2017 and making him the first batsman for Australia and the 8th batsman overall to score a century in his 100th ODI after Marcus Trescothick, Gordon Greenidge, Mohammad Yousuf, Chris Cairns, Chris Gayle, Kumar Sangakkara and Ramnaresh Sarwan.
•  While playing against Pakistan at the Sydney Cricket Ground on 3 January 2017,, he is only the fifth cricketer to score a century before lunch on the first day of a Test match, after Victor, Don Bradman, Trumper, Charlie Macartney, and Majid Khan. Of the five, he was the first to do so in Australia.

 DAVID WARNER Won These  Awards

• He got ICC Test Team of the Year in the year of 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
• Won ICC ODI Team of the Year in  2016, 2017
• ICC Test Team of the Decade in the year 2011–2020
• ICC ODI Team of the Decade in  2011–2020
• Allan Border Medal on 2016, 2017,2020
• Australian Test Player of the Year in 2016
• Australian One Day International Player of the Year in  2017, 2018
• Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year in 2012
• Indian Premier League Orange Cap on 2015, 2017, 2019
• ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Player of the Tournament around  2021

DAVID WARNER Got  CONTROVERSIES

•  After Australia lost an ICC Champions Trophy match to England at Edgbaston on 9 June 2013, Warner attacked England’s Joe Root in the wee hours at the Walkabout bar in Birmingham. Due to this incident, the Australian Cricket Team took strong action against Warner and stated that Warner was to be fined £7,000 (AU $11,500) and they didn’t allow him to play the rest of the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy and the tour matches. 

•  When both Australian and South African players were returning back to their dressing rooms at tea on the 4th day of the 1st Test at Durban on 4 March 2018, ugly remarks were transferred between Warner and Quinton de Kock on a stairwell. Due to this incident, according to the video footage, the ICC fined Warner by deducting 75% of his match fee and gave 3 demerit points.