David Warner, who recently retired from Test cricket and ODIs, has claimed that his upcoming autobiography will grab a lot of eyeballs.
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Warner called time on his illustrious Test career, with the New Year’s Test between Australia and Pakistan at the SCG being his last. He also retired from ODIs, a decision he revealed ahead of his final Test. However, he is still available for T20Is, and has kept the door open for a possible ODI comeback in 2025 Champions Trophy if Australia need him.
Speaking to Adam Gilchrist and former England captain Michael Vaughan on the Club Prairie Fire podcast, Warner stated that his autobiography is a work in progress and will “raise some eyebrows” once it comes out: “There’s definitely one in the pipeline and I think it’ll be an interesting read. There’s going to be a lot of things in that book that I think are going to raise some eyebrows.
“I’ll have to edit a few chapters now, there’s a few more that have been added. It was 1500 pages, now it’s probably 2000.”
Warner will also shed light on the infamous Sandpapergate incident that resulted in Cricket Australia banning him as well as Steve Smith and Cameron Bancroft: “It’s something that’s been thought of”.
“I think you look down the track now, where we are today, it is in the past and it does keep getting brought up. There has been a lot of speculation, a lot of comments about it. But from me, it’s about this team moving forward. It’s really important that the Australian cricket team is in a great space, that we’re playing well in all three formats, and I think that’s the utmost priority.”
“My side of the story and all that, that can be told whenever. There are probably going to be some things that are in the book that are definitely going to be related to 2018.”
He assured that the book is not a tit-for-tat concerning the ball-tampering saga rather it is more of an account of his journey and upbringing.
“It’s not potentially going to be around what I know, what others know, because then it just becomes a tit for tat, right? It’s not that kind of story. I want it to be about my journey, my upbringing, and there are going to be a few things in there: you’ve got the Joe Root saga, when I went back to Zimbabwe, there are so many things in there, a lot of stories in there. It’ll be an interesting read when the time comes, we can all pick it to pieces.”
With 18,612 runs and 49 centuries, Warner is the second-leading run-scorer for Australia across all formats, trailing only Ricky Ponting, who has 27,368 runs including 70 tons.
