Australian batter David Warner has spoken out about his bitter split from Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and the franchise blocking him on social media that followed, claiming it was strange and that it “hurt him.”.
When David Warner went to congratulate his national teammate Travis Head on being acquired by SRH in IPL 2024 at the end of 2023, he discovered he was blocked by the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise.
Not sure why I was blocked: David Warner
“It did (hurt) because it was a sense of like hurt for fans. The fans are the most important relationship you could have. With the engagement with the fans that I had, with the team had was very good,” Warner said in the latest episode of R Ashwin’s YouTube show.
“Not sure why I was blocked. But, I did engage with a lot of fans on the social media side for SRH. I did feel it was my duty to engage with the fans, making sure they keep coming back. That’s what is most important. But from the blocking point of view, I don’t know. I have been sitting on it for about five years. It was bizarre. At the end of the day, I still got fans who come onto my page and talk to everyone. So it’s great,” he added.
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Warner’s successful SRH stint
2014 saw Warner sign with a struggling SRH team, but he soon established himself as a batting unit mainstay. After being named captain in 2015, he guided the team to its first IPL championship the following year, defeating the highly-regarded Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) in the final and finishing as the second-highest run scorer of the competition with 848 runs.
