AUS vs SA: Candice Warner Abused: Australia opener David Warner’s wife Candice believes Cricket Australia’s provision of additional security at Test matches is crucial to ensure the safety of her three girls and the families of all players. She, however, has opted to provide her with a phone number to call if she is the target of additional harassment rather than surrounding her with guards. Follow South Africa Tour of Australia LIVE updates with InsideSport.IN
- Candice has decided against getting bodyguards as security
- She was abused by a spectator while meeting her husband David in Adelaide
- Cricket Australia offered Candice additional security during Test summer against South Africa
“I just said, ‘Look it’s unnecessary, I don’t need an escort. I’m very independent and I can stick up for myself,” she told Triple M Summer Breakfast. “But it’s more about the safety of all the players and their partners and families, and just everyone in general. As a mum of three daughters, their safety is paramount.”
“I have a phone number I can call, as can everyone else,” Warner said. “It’s not just a phone number for me or the Warners. This was a personal attack on me. It’s got nothing to do with Dave, it’s about my past and about me.”
AUS vs SA: David Warner’s wife Candice shoos off bodyguard offer for Test matches amid safety issues, says ‘I can stick up for myself’
Candice Warner was subjected to vile abuse from a bunch of punters while walking around the Adelaide Oval with her young children.
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The Infamous Ball-tampering incident: David Warner is regarded as one of cricket’s most popular and loved players worldwide, particularly in India. But since he and teammates Steve Smith and Cameron Bancroft were implicated in the infamous ball-tampering affair in 2018, things have changed. Even though the players are back on the field, the debate over their actions is still going strong.
Candice said on Monday that while she was meeting her husband, David, in the players’ area in Adelaide last week, she was abused by a spectator. She emphasized that she was not receiving special treatment and that her husband David had not been the focus of the abuse.
She was with her two daughters, ages three and eight when she confronted a group of men following the event. She has since received a call from CA, who offered her additional security at three Test matches this summer against South Africa.
The two sides’ first red-ball match since Australia’s 2018 tour of South Africa, during which Mrs. Warner was the target of organized fan chants that garnered extensive media coverage, will take place on Saturday in the opening Test at the Gabba. Two Cricket South Africa officials were reprimanded after they posed for a picture with hecklers in Port Elizabeth. Warner acknowledged that the possibility of a recurrence of 2018 made her anxious.
“It does concern me, it does make me a little nervous,” she said. “But I am sure being in Australia that won’t happen.”
Past instances of Racial abuse in Australia: This is not the first instance of racist abuse that a team member or partner has encountered in an Australian Cricket stadium. India pacer Mohammed Siraj made similar claims that he had received racial shouts during the third Test of the Border Gavaskar Trophy of 2020–21. Sirja’s assertions were backed up by spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, who noted that such incidents frequently occurred whenever India visited Australia.
AUS vs SA: David Warner’s wife Candice shoos off bodyguard offer for Test matches amid safety issues, says ‘I can stick up for myself’
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