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David Warner, the former Australian opener, a World Cup winner in the ODI and T20I formats, is celebrating his 38th birthday on October 27, 2024. The left-handed batter, who retired from international cricket after Australia bowed out of the T20 World Cup 2024 from the Super 8 stage, had an incredible career, etching his name among some of the best opening batters in the history of cricket. After making a name for himself in the limited-overs cricket in 2009, David Warner transitioned into an exceptional Test match batter in the 2010s, notching up 26 hundreds in the longest format of the game.
As a part of an exceptional Australian Test team, David Warner played a key role in defeating all comers, especially in home conditions, including England in the Ashes on multiple occasions in a dominating fashion. He scored a monumental triple hundred in a day-night Test match against Pakistan at the Adelaide Oval in 2019, finishing up on 335 not out, which is the fifth highest individual score in Test history. The New South Welshman retired from the Test format versus Pakistan at the Sydney Cricket Ground at the start of 2024.
While the Test career of David Warner was peaking, he had already become a big name in the 50-overs cricket, scoring 22 hundreds, apart from being a crucial part for Australia in winning the ODI World Cup in 2015 and 2023, which were their fifth and sixth world titles in history. His final game in the format was the final of the ODI World Cup 2023, in which Australia defeated India in a one-sided manner in Ahmedabad. The 38-year-old also became the joint-third fastest to 6000 runs in ODI cricket in 139 innings alongside Kane Williamson, while only coming behind Hashim Amla and Virat Kohli.
In 2021, after making his T20I debut 12 years earlier, David Warner finally got his hands on the coveted T20 World Cup trophy, following a win over New Zealand in the final in Dubai. The winner of the five player of the series awards in T20I cricket, the second most among all cricketers, is still a massive name in franchise cricket, especially due to his association with Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL. He led SRH to their first IPL title in 2016 after getting the better of Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the final in Bengaluru.
Just a few months after his retirement from international cricket, David Warner recently laid out a proposition to the Australian captain Pat Cummins and the selection committee about making a comeback to Test cricket, but he was quickly shot down by them.
