Australia star opener David Warner bid adieu to Check cricket as he performed his final match within the longest format on Saturday towards Pakistan. Warner scored 57 off 75 balls and helped Australia clinch an eight-wicket win and declare the three-match sequence 3-0. Making his Check debut again in 2011, Warner performed 112 matches and scored a whopping complete of 8786 runs. Other than his heroic knocks, Warner additionally fashioned an incredible opening pair along with his fellow teammate Usman Khawaja. The duo supplied a powerful base to Australia’s batting line-up for a number of years.
As Warner performed his final Check innings and obtained a heat farewell from the group, he was additionally seen giving a hug to Khawaja’s mom.
After the match, an emotional Khawaja recalled this pretty second and revealed that Warner shares an incredible bond along with his mom, who has given him a nickname.
“There he’s hugging my mum. He has identified my mum so long as he has identified me. And my mum loves him. She calls him Shaitan, Satan, Devil (laughs). My mum liked the truth that he was the satan and it wasn’t her son that she may simply push it again to Lorraine and Howard (Warner’s dad and mom),” Khawaja advised Fox Cricket whereas reflecting on the second.
“Truthfully, I simply loved batting with him, he attacked the ball, let me play my sport. Once I end (my profession), we are able to get pleasure from taking part in a spherical of golf collectively. Be your self, you may’t attempt to be another person, you simply cannot exit and strike within the 70s (when requested if Warner might be changed seamlessly),” he added.
Warner departed the red-ball sport after plundering 8,786 runs at a median of 44.60, with a strike price of 70.20, blasting 26 centuries and 37 half-centuries.
A bigger-than-life character, Warner additionally collected 91 catches as one of the crucial constant slip fielders in cricket.
(With AFP Inputs)
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