Embracing Steve Smith and then leaving Test cricket forever, David Warner gave us something to remember him by as he marched into retirement.
Embracing Steve Smith and then leaving Test cricket forever, David Warner gave us something to remember him by as he marched into retirement. Sir Donald Bradman’s in 1948, of course, was unforgettable for being a duck; Greg Chappell’s at the SCG in 1984 for an innings of 182 that took him beyond Bradman’s runs tally. Dion Georgopoulos Forty years later, and Warner’s final knock was apt in a multitude of ways. It captured, in miniature, so much of what had made him special.
For a start, a tally of 57 neatly matched his career average on home soil – 57.85 per innings, a mark that helped ensure Australia lost just three home series in which he played. There was the theatre of the occasion, complete with the words “Thanks Dave” stencilled onto the outfield where he walked onto the field for his last day at the crease –When they started out for the middle, Khawaja acknowledged how great the journey had been together. So choked up did Warner become that this most voluble of cricketers was unable to muster any words in respons
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