{"id":539031,"date":"2026-07-22T18:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/539031\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T18:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:44:12","slug":"former-australia-test-opener-david-warner-admits-drink-driving-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/539031\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Australia test opener David Warner admits drink-driving charge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cHe knows what he did was wrong,\u201d Hill said at the time.<\/p>\n

\"DavidDavid Warner has pleaded guilty to drink-driving. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n

\u201cHe accepts that was a reckless decision, a foolish decision to get in his car instead of taking an Uber.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawyer said Warner, who previously captained Australia\u2019s ODI and T20I teams, had drunk three glasses of wine<\/a> at a friend\u2019s apartment on Easter Sunday before deciding to drive home.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a crime to have a glass of wine on the day of the Lord\u2019s resurrection,\u201d Hill said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis crime is, as I said, choosing a foolish plan A instead of a plan B.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hill claimed the former test opener<\/a> had his last drink about 11 minutes before police pulled him over and accused police of taking 52 minutes to perform the second breathalyser test.<\/p>\n

After he was charged in April<\/a>, Cricket NSW chief executive Lee Germon said the allegations were \u201cconcerning\u201d and were being taken \u201cvery seriously\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt Cricket NSW, we are strong advocates for safe driving, not drink-driving,\u201d Germon said.<\/p>\n

Warner is still listed as captain of Australian Big Bash league side the Sydney Thunder on their website and is expected to still be with the team when the season starts in December after signing an extension in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe knows what he did was wrong,\u201d Hill said at the time. David Warner has pleaded guilty to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16489,85,1135,44485,32294,6284,39687,2740,3368,111,139,69,20248,3373,213,765,36314],"class_list":["post-539031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-admits","tag-australia","tag-australian","tag-batter","tag-charge","tag-david","tag-drinkdriving","tag-former","tag-guilty","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-opener","tag-pleaded","tag-sports","tag-test","tag-warner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539031","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=539031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}