David Warner leaves field after being sledged in Australian Grade Cricket match
Saturday 27 October 2018 12:24, UK
Banned Australia batsman David Warner walked off the field during his innings after apparently being sledged by an opponent in a Sydney grade game.
The former Test vice-captain, who is serving a 12-month ban from international and state cricket for his role in a ball-tampering scandal, was batting for Randwick-Petersham at the time when an opponent from the Western Suburbs team is said to have sledged Warner.
The left-hander was apparently not happy with a jibe from an opposition player and told an umpire he was leaving the field and walked off, only to return to the crease just a few minutes later to continue his innings and score 157.
The player who allegedly sledged Warner was later identified by Australian media as Jason Hughes, the older brother of former Australia Test batsman Phillip Hughes, who died after being struck by a bouncer in 2014. Media reports said Jason Hughes called Warner a "disgrace."
Warner declined to comment.
Warner, along with former Australia captain Steve Smith, was sent home in disgrace and banned over the ball-tampering scandal during the third Test in South Africa in March.
Warner was blamed as the instigator of the incident in which Cameron Bancroft attempted to alter the ball with a piece of yellow sandpaper.
