Former SunRisers Hyderabad’s captain David Warner has been going through a tough phase with the SRH management deciding to drop him. It was during the first leg of the IPL 2021, when he acked from captaincy and was replaced with Kane Williamson after SRH had one of their worst starts to an IPL season.
Now as the second-leg of IPL 2021 resumed in the UAE, Warner only featured in the first two games for SRH but aggregated just 2 runs. He was then dropped from the squad with Jason Roy taking his place in the team.
He has also been missing out from the SunRisers Hyderabad dugout in the last two games of SRH and if reports are to be believed than Warner was not allowed to travel with the team. Mufaddal Vohra, a popular fan on Twitter tweeted after having confirmed from Boria Majumdar, one of the prominent Indian sports journalists took to his Twitter and broke this news. He wrote:
“David Warner wasn’t even allowed to travel with the team to the stadium last night for the game.”
Here, check out the Tweet:
David Warner wasn’t even allowed to travel with the team to the stadium last night for the game.
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) October 1, 2021
He also made it clear that he was not allowed to travel with the team. He wrote:
“I cleared this with Boria sir. I asked him Warner didn’t travel or he wasn’t allowed? He said he wasn’t allowed.”
Here, check out the reply:
I cleared this with Boria sir. I asked him Warner didn’t travel or he wasn’t allowed? He said he wasn’t allowed.
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) October 1, 2021
The tweets have created quite a stir on social media. Fans are slamming SunRisers Hyderabad’s team management for now allowing David Warner to travel with the squad.
Here, check out the reactions of Twitterati on this:
This is not the respect shown to a foreign player who says India as Second Home @BCCI @SunRisers ? https://t.co/hX2L51jCsg
— Niranjan ? (@A_Thalapathyan) October 1, 2021
This is ridiculous if it’s true… Not the way to treat a champion cricketer who has contributed so much to the franchise over the last 6 seasons… I wish @ChennaiIPL / @RCBTweets picks him next season…. He deserves a better franchise… https://t.co/TlstUxTUdb
— Senthil || செந்தில் (@senthil77) October 1, 2021
I’m not even a Warner fan but still I would say SRH deserves the last place finish this year! L@&#e ka management bc https://t.co/Sq6Nm7Pl9l
— Ananth L Upadhyaya (@iAnanthUpadhya) October 1, 2021
He carried your franchise single handedly for so many years. And this is how you treat him!! ??@SunRisers @davidwarner31 https://t.co/FovXx47rHw
— Sumit Chhablani (@_sumit19_) October 1, 2021
He deserves far more than what is been done! @davidwarner31 your are true champion for us! That’s enough for us. Definitely your comeback will be blockbuster! #IPL2021 https://t.co/vXez0ma5HS
— Brusleen Ravi (@BrusleenR) October 1, 2021
My heart goes out for David Warner ?? https://t.co/9ukTe4UDbA
— ?? (@cheekkkuuuuu) October 1, 2021
David Warner next season at Rajiv Gandhi Stadium: https://t.co/BDVtlFmQ57 pic.twitter.com/dkInzUMNVf
— Paddy (@padmnaabh_s) October 1, 2021
This is not the way to treat one of the greatest of your league @davidwarner31 deserves more respect
Shame on you @SunRisers
You deserve to be on last in the points table
Hope next auction Warner will be picked as captain for one of two new sides
All the best @davidwarner31 https://t.co/lZH1knV1jW— Shubham Dixit (@Shubham_0703) October 1, 2021
Bc @SunRisers that guy single handily carried ur worst batting lineup 😡
One of the best overseas player n u treat him like this 😑@davidwarner31 come to Mumbai Indians 😒 https://t.co/eWNB9R3Ng1— ❣ (@rita_siddhi) October 1, 2021
And they ask why I hate SRH Management ??
Total shit management they don’t deserve players like Warner and Kane , After all the things that Warner did for the franchise one bad season you aren’t even allowed to travel with the team
Wharra a Management ?? https://t.co/mwgiCsUX25
— Mr Itch (@MrItch14) October 1, 2021
One bad season & this happens to the franchise’ best player over the years https://t.co/KjOSN4SqZG
— TakeADeepBreath (@DeepTake) October 1, 2021
Meanwhile, the head coach of Sunrisers Hyderabad Trevor Bayliss cleared the air by revealing that Warner was not the only player who sat in the team hotel for Monday’s match with Kedar Jadhav and Shahbaz Nadeem also sitting out. He said:
“We can’t make the final so have made a decision that we want the young players to experience not just the matches but time at the ground, around the set-up, and for this match we made the decision. “He was not the only experienced player we left back at the hotel”
“We have a number of young players that haven’t been to the ground. Even as reserves. We wanted to give them an opportunity to come along and experience that. That may continue for a few more games yet. We don’t know.”
He added:
“We have got to sit down in a day or two and pick a team and pick a squad of 18. That’s just the way it is. Dave is obviously watching the game back in the hotel and giving the guys support. It is the same as everyone else. We are all in this together.”