3 minute read The true greats are pretty much irreplaceable. It’s safe to say Australia aren’t going to find a pantomime villain like David Warner again any time soon. This puts them in a very difficult situation given that quite a lot of their current players are really quite agreeable people. How can
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David Warner is secretly rubbish at cricket
3 minute read It really doesn’t seem any great surprise that David Warner should be in Australia’s Ashes squad. But actually, for a man who has 103 Test caps and 25 hundreds to his name, his case is oddly weak. Here in the UK, it’s about the time of year when people start
Continue readingHaving David Warner play Nathan Lyon at the Test Match board game seems a perfectly reasonable way to promote series two of The Test on Amazon Prime
3 minute read Say what you like about tax-dodging symbol of the horrors of modern global commerce, Amazon, it knows how to promote a documentary series about the Australia Test cricket team. Series one of Amazon Prime’s The Test was notable for footage of Justin Langer kicking a bin over, among other things.
Continue readingDid you see… David Warner’s suicidal switch-prod?
2 minute read ‘David Warner b Naveen-ul-Haq’ really doesn’t do it justice. You need to see it. Or at least have it described to you alongside a handful of stills. The switch hit is right up there with cricket’s most hubristic shots. It arguably even surpasses the quite-possibly-smashing-it-straight-into-your-own-face peacocking of the ramp shot.
Continue readingIf a cricket match is played and no-one is there to boo David Warner then how can we be sure that Australia truly lost?
< 1 minute read The First Crowd-Free T20 International between England and Australia saw the home team engineer a position where they would have to play very well and Australia very badly to secure their desired result. England did their bit and so too did Australia, in large part thanks to David Warner’s nondescript
Continue readingBreaking down David Warner and Nathan Lyon’s run-out of AB de Villiers – one of the most disrespectful dismissals in history
4 minute read Many things happened during Australia’s win in the first Test of their ill-fated 2018 tour of South Africa. Some of them were cricket, some of them were David Warner falling out with people. The thing that interests us the most – AB de Villiers’ second innings run-out – fell somewhere
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Continue readingDavid Warner’s beard is probably worth talking about at least just a little bit
< 1 minute read David Warner looks like the top half of his head spent a year at home and the bottom half of his head spent a year in the literal wilderness. The top half of the head has been drinking frappuccinos and eating plenty of vegetables. The bottom half of the head
Continue readingAustralia were far and away the funniest cricket team in 2018 – but who was their MVP?
7 minute read The story of international cricket in 2018 is really just all the stuff that happened with Australia. This seems a bit narrow and exclusive for an end-of-year retrospective, so we thought we’d instead focus on all the funny things that happened in 2018 to try and broaden it out a
Continue readingHas David Warner really ‘gone rogue’ and if so, why? Let’s examine the evidence
4 minute read Absolutely the best recent headline about Australia’s ball tampering is the one on Fox Sports suggesting that David Warner has ‘gone rogue’. The evidence for David Warner’s rogue-going is that (a) he was sitting on his own at one point and (b) he drank Champagne with friends who weren’t cricketers.
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