Rahul Tiwari
khelja|25-06-2024
T20 World Cup 2024: World champion Australia's journey in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 is now over. Afghanistan defeated Bangladesh and dashed the hopes of the Kangaroos to reach the semi-finals. This team wanted Bangladesh to defeat the Afghan team. However, the opposite happened.
The Australian team's dream of winning the title for the second time after 2021 remained unfulfilled. Meanwhile, a big news is coming from their camp. As soon as they were out of the T20 World Cup 2024, a veteran cricketer has announced his retirement. Let's know in detail who is that player.
As soon as the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 ended, Australia's legendary batsman David Warner has announced his retirement. In fact, the 37-year-old player had indicated last year itself that after the T20 World Cup, he would also say goodbye to limited overs cricket.
Let us tell you that Warner had already retired from Test and ODI. The Test series against Pakistan in 2023 was his last. Apart from this, after retiring from 50 overs cricket after the ODI World Cup, now it was the turn of T20 cricket.
David Warner has retired from international cricket.
– A legendary career comes to an end, Thank You Davey! pic.twitter.com/ny4SUiWivG
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) June 25, 2024
David Warner has bid farewell to international cricket forever. However, his team could not give a memorable farewell to their senior cricketer. It is worth noting that Australia got eliminated from the Super-8 round itself. In the T20 World Cup 2024, the left-handed batsman scored a total of 178 runs in 7 matches.
During this, two half-century innings also came from his bat.David Warner, who made his debut for Australia on 11 January 2009, dominated all three formats. This explosive batsman represented his country in 112 Tests, 161 ODIs and 110 T20s. He has 8786 runs in Tests at an average of 44.59.
This includes 26 centuries and 37 half-centuries. Apart from this, Warner's bat has produced 6932 runs in ODIs at an average of 45.30. He has 22 centuries and 33 half-centuries to his name in this format. In T20, the left-handed batsman scored 3277 runs at a strike rate of 142.47.