David Warner failed to break his Test century drought against the West Indies. Photo: Quinn Rooney – CA\/Cricket Australia via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The incident continued a week of headlines for the Warner family after David had withdrawn his application to contest his leadership ban following the infamous ball-tampering scandal against the Proteas in 2018.<\/p>\n

David said he did not want \u201ccricket\u2019s dirty laundry\u201d to be aired by the re-opening of the events of 2018.<\/p>\n

Candice slammed Cricket Australia for putting player welfare to the side.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo put our family, also his teammates, through everything again and the disappointing thing for David is this has been dragged out for so long,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything first kicked off in February (reviewing Warner\u2019s leadership ban) and it\u2019s now December and still no decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s still raw, we go to cricket so often watching David play and there\u2019s always people yelling things out at the crowd.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy daughters proudly wear their dad\u2019s T-shirt with their dad\u2019s name on the back. The fact that my daughters have to cop abuse because of incidents that have happened in the past is not fair.<\/p>\n

\u201cDavid always puts family first, he\u2019s fiercely protective of myself and the three girls, and cricket is not everything, cricket is what he does, but cricket does not define him and the person he is.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that there was a lack of player welfare (from Cricket Australia), and no welfare about David and our family speaks volumes.\u201d<\/p>\n

$\"PERTH,$ <\/p>\n

Steve Smith says David Warner’s leadership ban is “fundamentally wrong”. Photo: Quinn Rooney – CA\/Cricket Australia via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Warner\u2019s teammate Steve Smith, who also copped a one-year ban from Cricket Australia for the ball-tampering scandal but has twice captained Australia in the absence of Pat Cummins, said the leadership was \u201cfundamentally wrong\u201d.<\/p>\n

“From my point of view, banning for life from leadership is just fundamentally wrong,” said Smith, who served as Australia’s stand-in captain in Adelaide.<\/p>\n

“David served his time like I did.<\/p>\n

“For us, we know he’s a leader around the group, and on and off the field he’s doing a tremendous job.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a difficult one for him, it\u2019s been a difficult week. David has said he\u2019s done and disaster (with the appeal) and get on with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The headlines come as Warner searches for form ahead of a crunch series against South Africa, starting at The Gabba on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old opener has not scored a Test century since the start of 2020 and was the only player in Australia\u2019s top five not to score a half-century against the West Indies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Candice Warner \u2013 the wife of Australian cricketer David \u2013 has spoken out about the \u201cvile abuse\u201d her family is receiving, saying attending matches is no longer safe. The former ironwoman, who is forging a successful career in the media landscape, recalled a story on breakfast radio on Monday, where she said she was targeted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/David-Candice-Warner.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9641,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9640\/revisions\/9641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}