David Warner has endured his fair share of controversies in his cricketing career. From Sandpapergate to the recent controversy involving Mitchell Johnson, Warner has been in the thick of things. Howver, ahead of his retirement, one of the Cricket Australia directors have hailed Warner for bouncing back from the controversies.
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Earl Eddings, who was deputy chair of Cricket Australia in March 2018 and singled Warner out for the heaviest penalty levied during Sandpapergate, has said that Warner earned a lot of respect for taking the punishment ‘on the chin’.
After the incident in 2018, Warner was banned for a year from playing international cricket. He did make his return to the Australian team after serving his punishment. Warner established himself as one of the top batters of Australia after the comeback.
“He went back and did what we asked him to do at the time, and he came back out and took his punishment on the chin and played great cricket,” Eddings told Sydney Morning Herald ahead of Warner’s final Test match.
“The way he came back and applied himself, he’s earned a lot of respect by doing that. It was never about stopping them from playing the game. It was doing your punishment, come back and hopefully come back as better batsmen and better people.
“He’s been a player of a generation. He’s transcended the game in how he changed the norms of how people bat and how they view batsmanship – I think he’s going to leave a great legacy,” he added.
