Australia batting legend David Warner is set to ‘raise eyebrows’ confirming there’s an autobiography in the pipeline which will also discuss his version of the ball-tampering scandal of 2018 that resulted in him being banned for a year.
Warner recently played the last Test of his career and has also retired from ODIs. However, he will remain available for T20Is hoping to be part of Australia’s world cup campaign later this year.
Warner was among the three Australian players including former captain Steve Smith and opening batter Cameron Bancroft who were found guilty of ball tampering during the Newlands Test of 2018 against South Africa.
Warner and Smith were banned for 12 months while Bancroft received a nine-month ban. Additionally, Warner was also banned from holding any leadership positions in the Australian teams.
During a chat with former England captain Michael Vaughan and Australia legend Adam Gilchrist on their Prairie Club Fire podcast, Warner said, “There’s definitely a book in the pipeline, and I think it will 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,” he quipped.
Warner has indicated that there’s some time before he releases the book as he doesn’t want the current Australia players to be impacted by what he might reveal.
“It’s something that’s been thought of (discussing Newlands in the book) … it does keep getting brought up, and there’s been a lot of speculation, a lot of comments about it. 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 upmost priority. Warner said.
“My side of the story … that can be told whenever. There are probably some things in the book that are definitely going to be related to 2018, but it’s not potentially going to be around what I know, what others know, because then it just becomes a tit-for-tat – it’s not that kind of story,” he added.
There’s been a lot of talk surrounding Warner’s successor as opener in Test cricket.
Warner though doesn’t think that it’s a job that should be limited to a specialist and in fact, backed Steve Smith for the spot who has so far batted in the middle order.
“It’s a tough one, you had Cameron Bancroft come out the other day and talk about a traditionalist, I’ve spoken about myself never opening and then making my way into that position,” he said.
“I think (Smith) would go well, he is the best Test batsman in the world, he just finds a way. It’s probably the challenge of it which I think he probably wants to get into. He’s ticked the box off where he is now … he probably just wants to see if he can go out and open. He’ll adapt to any situation … he’ll do very, very well,” he added.
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