The daredevil Warner turns a deaf ear to warnings

David Warner was the first Australian cricketer selected to the national side without playing a first class game in over a century while he debuted in 2009. He made a whooping 89 from 43 balls with 7 fours and 6 sixes and since then he has been known for his aggression with the bat and otherwise. But 2013 has seen Warner highlighted by the media for wrong reasons.
The India – Australia test matches are always under immense tension after the Monkeygate racial spat in 2007-08.For those of you who haven’t heard about it before – during a test match in between the two team s in Sydney Cricket Ground, Aussie player Andrew Symonds complained against Indian Spinner Harbhajan Singh for racial abuse and calling him a Monkey. Though the spinner was suspended for three test matches, the decision was later overturned upon threat by the Indian team to quit the tour. This year in March, the Aussies toured India and Mr. Warner started a verbal tilt with Ravindra Jadeja. Indian captain MS Dhoni also got involved to support his batting partner. Poor Sir Jadeja, as he is mocked by his team mates was no competition to Warner and his verbal abuse and decided to get the umpires involved.
Warner was more than happy to defend himself than being apologetic and said that Aussie cricket was all about unsettling the opposition. He takes credit of Dhoni’s dismissal immediately after the row. He definitely is proud of his actions but doubt if Cricket Australia is.
The Aussie tour was over and the stage for the next controversy was again India but Warner was now wearing the Delhi Dare Devil uniform in the IPL .Though IPL was never out of controversies, the spot fixing scandal this year made things worse. The entire world was talking about it and so was the two celebrated Australian cricket writers Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn. Craddock’s article had Warner’s image alongside the article which provoked the Australian opener. The Delhi camper’s tweets had very strong words used against the writers and Cricket Australia fined him $ 5750 hoping that he would change for the better. That accounted for just a meagre 0.77% of his IPL salary of $750000.Our man did come out with an apology but it wasn’t long before he again got into trouble.
This time the venue for his anger and aggression was a pub in Birmingham, England. The Walkabout Australian pub was star studded on an evening during the Champions Trophy this June. The players of the English and Aussie team were enjoying the ambience and the drinks when Warner threw a punch at the boy from Yorkshire, Joe Root who had a fake beard on. Warner believed that the beard was worn to ridicule South African Hashim Amla and decided to punish little Root, but the English board confirms that he was poking fun at himself as he team mates taunted that he was too young to grow facial hair. This time Cricket Australia decides to go one step further with the punishment. He was fined $11500 , dropped from the Champions trophy team and for the Ashes series. This is not all, he was sent to join the Australian A team in Africa to get proper practise for test matches. Well, we would like to believe the idea of giving practise to the big hitter for all his experience in the longer format of the game.
No punishment is really going to calm down Mr. Warner. He picks up another fight in Africa with the South African wicket keeper and the umpires had to stop the match twice on two consecutive days to bring things under control. The problem child of Australian cricket has now been called back to represent the Aussie team which is in serious trouble in the Ashes series trailing 0-2 against England. One should wait and watch the welcome he would get from the English team and Joe Root as this is the first time they are back on field facing each other after the Walkabout attack. Cricket Australia has to shell out funds for researching on innovative ideas to keep David Warner out of trouble.