Former Australia player David Warner made a blistering return to the Big Bash League (BBL), scoring an unbeaten 86 runs and helping Sydney Thunder defeat Melbourne Renegades by 8 runs.
Coming into bat, Warner took 57 balls to reach 86 while he took 40 deliveries to reach his half century in an innings peppered with 10 fours and 2 sixes as Sydney posted 156/4 after 20 overs.
Wes Agar would be another architect of Sydney’s win as his spell of 4/32 helped his team to restrict Melbourne to 148/8.
David Warner‘s first BBL half-century since 2013! 👏
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This score was the explosive batter’s highest since his return to the BBL in 2023 while his first BBL century was back in the 2011/12 season.
Warner’s international career also came to an end earlier this year when Australia were knocked out of the T20 World Cup with the batter’s last match being the Aussies’ 24-run defeat to India in the Super 8 match of the tournament.
The 38-year-old Warner, who made his international debut in January 2009 in a T20I match, played his final ODI match in the World Cup final win over India in November 2023 and his last Test against Pakistan in January.
He retired as Australia’s highest scorer and seventh-most prolific batter in the world in T20 format with 3,277 runs from 110 matches, at an average of 33.43 and strike rate of 142.47. He scored one hundred and 28 fifties in the shortest format.
From 112 Tests, he scored 8,786 runs at an average of 44.59 with 26 hundreds and 37 fifties between 2011 and 2024. He also scored 6,932 runs from 161 ODI matches at an average of 45.30 with the help of 22 centuries and 33 half centuries.
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