A personal account of the author's experience with David Warner during a tragic incident in 2014.
In almost 40 years of writing about Test cricket and working with international players, there are very few I’ve had particular difficulty with. But there was a time when David Warner was at the top of that list, and I was sure he felt the same way about me. That changed in the most dreadful circumstances imaginable in 2014.
The setting was St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, in the days after Phillip Hughes was struck in the neck by the ball while playing for South Australia in a Sheffield Shield match against NSW at the SCG. This delightful country kid, who’d begun his career with NSW, lay motionless and on life support upstairs. Teammates and close friends were filing past in sombre groups to pay what would be their last respects, with Warner among them. After more than 30 years in newspapers, I was then a senior communications manager for Cricket Australia and Cricket NSW sitting at a table at the back of the foyer, acting as conduit between the media and the CA medical staff. This remains the worst week of my life. The sadness. The agony of the famil
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