AUS vs WI: David Warner Reveals His Autobiography Will Have Details About Ball-Tampering Scandal

Australian opener David Warner has confirmed that he is planning to publish an autobiography that will have details on the infamous “ball-tampering Scandal from the 2018 Cape Town Test match.

Cricket Australia banned Steve Smith and David Warner for 12 months each while Cameron Bancroft was banned for nine months after the trio was found guilty of tampering with the ball.

Warmer in his recent interview with former England captain Michael Vaughan and Australia legend Adam Gilchrist on their Prairie Club Fire podcast said that he is willing to write the autobiography to let people know about his side of the story.

“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,” said the just-retired cricketer.

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He further said that he plans to publish the book after the current generation of Australian cricketers retire as he does not want the players to be affected by what he reveals in the book during their playing days.

“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 utmost 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.

Meanwhile, Cricket Australia is busy searching for Warner’s replacement before Australia’s next Test series against West Indies at home starting on January 17 with the first Test in Adelaide. He backed Steve Smith to replace him at the top of the order saying that the job should not be considered as a specialist job.

“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. 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.

David Warner retired from Test cricket with 8786 runs in 112 Test matches sat an average of 44.6 with 26 centuries, 37 fifties, and three double-hundreds. He scored 57 in his last Test innings at Sydney as Australia completed a whitewash against Pakistan by winning the Test series 3-0.

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