Australia's legendary cricketer David Warner is busy playing T20 league these days after retiring from International Cricket. Recently, he played the final while captaining the Big Bash League. Now he has entered the last stop of the International League T20 released in UAE. Warner created panic with the return to the ILT20. He played the first match of this season for Dubai Capitals on Sunday 2 February. In this match against Shah Rukh Khan's franchise team Abu Dhabi Knight Riders, he scored just 57 runs 93 runs. On the basis of this innings, Warner defeated Abu Dhabi and qualified his team for playoffs. Due to this, Shah Rukh's team has been ruled out of the tournament. Also, he has also beat Virat Kohli in T20 cricket.

Virat Kohli beaten

The team of Dubai Capitals needed 1 win to get into the playoffs and had two matches left. In such a situation, Warner emerged as the Messiah for the Dubai team. While opening, he hit 97 runs in 57 balls at a strike rate of 163. During this, Warner hit 12 fours and 1 sixes. Along with this, he has also defeated Virat Kohli. Now he has scored more runs than Kohli in the name of T20 cricket Warner. While Warner has scored 12909 runs in 397 innings, Kohli has scored 12889 runs in 382 innings.

@davidwarner31S Arrival has been worth the wait!

The southpaw came and dominated from the get-Go, Smashing His Way to a Jaw-Dropping 9⃣3⃣* #DCVADKR #DPWORLDILT20 #Racetotheplayoffs #Allinforcrickt pic.twitter.com/unPrtrsdm

- International League T20 (@ult20OFFICIAL) February 2, 2025

In the banging innings of David Warner, fellow opener She Hope contributed significantly and gave 36 runs in 24 balls. Apart from him, Gulbadin Naib scored 47 runs in just 25 balls. He rained 3 sixes and 3 fours. In the end, Dasun Shanaka scored a 34 -run innings in 12 balls. In this way, Dubai batting first hit 217 runs.

Dubai transported to playoffs

Shah Rukh Khan's team also responded to this in a tremendous way. Kyle Mayors made a chance to win 42 runs in 29 balls and 78 runs in Andrew Gauss 78 balls. But his innings did not prove to be enough. Later Clarke scored 29 runs in 22 balls, Jason Holder scored 16 runs in 9 balls. In the end, Sunil Narine played a stormy innings of 22 runs in 8 balls. Despite this, the team of Abu Dhabi Knight Riders could only manage 191 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs. In this way, thanks to Warner's strong innings, Dubai Capitals won the match by 26 runs and qualified for the playoffs.