One of Australia’s greatest batters faces an uncertain sporting future after allegedly blowing double the legal limit on a breath test.<\/p>\n
David Warner returned a positive result for alcohol after being stopped for a roadside test in Sydney’s east on Easter Sunday, police said.<\/p>\n
The 39-year-old allegedly parked short of the testing site when officers approached and breathalysed him.<\/p>\n
The former Australian Test opener and current Sydney Thunder Big Bash captain is accused of returning a blood-alcohol reading of 0.104 at Maroubra Police Station, where he was charged with mid-range drink driving.<\/p>\n
He faces a $2200 fine and up to nine months in prison if convicted. <\/p>\n
He has not yet entered a plea, with his matter set for a first mention in Waverley Local Court on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The charges have cast doubt on his Thunder captaincy.<\/p>\n
Cricket NSW chief executive Lee Germon told reporters after the arrest Warner’s captaincy “will be worked through and remains to be seen”.<\/p>\n
“The allegations are of course concerning and we take them very seriously”, Germon said.<\/p>\n
“At Cricket NSW, we are strong advocates for safe driving, not drink-driving.”<\/p>\n
Warner’s arrest came while on an Easter trip home from the subcontinent, where he captained the Karachi Kings in the Pakistan Super League. <\/p>\n
He returned to Pakistan after his charging to resume the T20 tournament, where he averaged an impressive 51.2 with the bat.<\/p>\n
That included belting 89 not out off 48 balls in the Kings’ last fixture against the Quetta Gladiators.<\/p>\n
The charge came after Warner posted a record-breaking Big Bash League season, averaging 86.6 and being named team of the tournament captain.<\/p>\n
Warner was a swashbuckling opening batsman and aggressive run-scorer until his retirement from Test cricket in 2024.<\/p>\n
He has since appeared on the Fox Cricket commentary team.<\/p>\n
He scored 8786 runs at an average of more than 44 across his 112 tests, with a career high score of 335 not out against Pakistan.<\/p>\n
But Warner created headlines for the wrong reasons when he was one of three Australian players suspended after a 2018 ball-tampering scandal in South Africa that shook the cricketing world.<\/p>\n
A Cricket Australia investigation found Warner, who was vice-captain at the time, masterminded a plan to alter the condition of the match ball with sandpaper and enlisted rookie batsmen Cameron Bancroft to carry it out.<\/p>\n
Warner was banned from international and domestic cricket for 12 months and made permanently ineligible for team leadership positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Australia’s greatest batters faces an uncertain sporting future after allegedly blowing double the legal limit on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,67,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-415264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-australia","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415264","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=415264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}