Watch: David Warner engages in hilarious conversation with a fan during Australia vs England 1st ODI
The love of fans for their favourite cricketers is immeasurable. They can go to any extent to get an autograph or a photo with their favourite stars. Similarly, a young fan was seen asking Australian opener David Warner for his jersey during first Australia vs England ODI on Thursday.
The incident took place in the 46th over of the second innings when a cameraman caught a young spectacled fan holding a piece of paper on which it was written, ‘David Warner can I have ur shirt?’. The fan was also seen by the Australian dressing room as players hilariously began removing Warner’s hoodie as he was sitting. Moments later, Warner replied to the fan holding a placard in the dressing room which said, ‘Get One Off MARNUS’.
Seeing Warner’s message, the other fan sitting next to the spectacled fan came up with a placard asking for Marnus Labuschagne’s shirt. After constant requests, Warner was seen gesturing the kids to come into the dressing room to get the shirt. The entire incident was loved by the crowd and commentary box.
Watch the video here:
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— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) November 17, 2022
Australia registered a 6-wicket win as David Warner and Steve Smith starred with the bat
Coming back to the match, after being put in to bat first England lost both their openers Jason Roy and Philip Salt on 20. Mitchell Starc cleaned up Jason Roy while Captain Cummins dismissed Jason Roy in the fifth over. Cummins further gave third blow to England as he removed James Vince on the score of 31.
After the leading seamers, Marcus Stoinis and Adam Zampa got into the act and dismissed Sam Billings and Jos Buttler respectively as England lost half their side on 118. Seeing his side in trouble, Dawid Malan held the England innings together scoring a magnificent 134 off 128 balls to take England to 287/9 after their allotted 50 overs. Pat Cummins and Adam Zampa picked up three wickets each for Australia.
In reply to England’s total, Australian openers Travis Head and David Warner added 147 runs for the first wicket. England got their first success as Chris Jordan removed Travis Head for 69 off 57 balls. Warner continued his brilliant innings at the other end with his eyes set on a hundred.
However, the southpaw fell 14 runs short of the landmark as he was dismissed by David Willey for 86 leaving Australia at 200/2. After losing Warner, Steve Smith took the innings forward with his brilliant knock making sure that there were no hiccups in the chase. Smith scored an unbeaten 80 off 78 balls as Australia chased down the target with 19 balls to spare in their innings to go 1-0 up in the three-match series.
