{"id":368381,"date":"2026-04-07T20:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/368381\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:23:08","slug":"australian-cricket-great-david-warner-charged-with-drink-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/368381\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian cricket great David Warner charged with drink-driving"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Australian opener David Warner has been charged with drink-driving after he was pulled over in Sydney during the weekend, according to reports. <\/p>\n

\n The 39-year-old, who still plays Twenty20 cricket for franchises around the world, was allegedly at the wheel of a van that stopped and parked short of
\n a random testing site on Sunday.\n <\/p>\n

National broadcaster ABC said officers approached the vehicle and breath-tested Warner who returned a positive result.<\/p>\n

He was arrested and taken to a local police station where he was charged with mid-range drink driving, ABC and other local media reported. He is due to appear in court on May 7.<\/p>\n

Police in a statement outlined the incident but did not name Warner, who retired from international cricket in 2024 after racking up 8786 runs across his 112 Tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 7 Apr, 2026 06:29 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3225,74,1135,1558,13239,16558,6284,39687,2837,2740,16773,111,139,69,20248,1523,26525,766,213,1734,36314,4767,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-368381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-according","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-australian","11":"tag-been","12":"tag-charged","13":"tag-cricket","14":"tag-david","15":"tag-drinkdriving","16":"tag-during","17":"tag-former","18":"tag-great","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-newzealand","21":"tag-nz","22":"tag-opener","23":"tag-over","24":"tag-pulled","25":"tag-reports","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-sydney","28":"tag-warner","29":"tag-weekend","30":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}