“We still get people screaming things out”- Candice Warner breaks down while detailing the family’s distress over David Warner’s leadership ban appeal


“We still get people screaming things out”- Candice Warner breaks down while detailing the family’s distress over David Warner’s leadership ban appeal

Candice Warner and David Warner

On the eve of the second Test in Adelaide, Australia batter David Warner penned down a lengthy emotional note announcing his decision to withdraw from the leadership ban appeal. Following the Sandpapergate scandal in 2018, Warner received a lifetime ban from leadership roles by Cricket Australia (CA). As Warner appealed to review the ban, the independent panel wanted to make the details of the hearing public.

But Warner didn’t accept this, stating that following the ball-tampering event, his family have been through a lot. “There are more important things than cricket,” Warner, who is very protective of his wife and three daughters, wrote on the note.

Notably, Warner, Steve Smith, and Cameron Brancroft were caught using sandpaper to take the shine off the ball in a Test against South Africa in Cape Town in 2018. They were then banned from playing cricket for 12 months.

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Candice Warner describes the review process as outrageous

David Warner
Candice Warner and David Warner

Speaking on the radio show Triple M, David Warner’s wife Candice Warner detailed the pains they have been dealing with since the infamous event in Cape Town. “It has been incredibly intense, not just 12 months, but since March 2018, we live it day to day, that pain doesn’t go away,” she said.

It is still raw, we go to the cricket so often to watch David play and there are always people yelling things out in the crowd, or at my daughters who proudly wear their dad’s T-shirt with their father’s name on the back. The fact my daughters have to cop abuse because of incidents that happened in the past is not fair,” she added.

As the independent panel wants to make the private trial a public one, Warner, players, and coaches would be cross-examined. For Candice, “it is just outrageous.” She lashed out at the panel because, “The fact they used words like ‘cleansing’, to me is a joke.

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