The veteran Sunirsers Hynderabad (SRH) cricketer, David Warner has not been visible in the dugout of thee team in the last couple of games of the ongoing second leg of IPL 2021 has been a mystery. Earlier in the season, he was stripped of captaincy and subsequently dropped from the playing XI as well. But with Jonny Bairstow pulling out, Warner got another shot for claiming his position at top of the order.

However, Warner failed to play a big knock in the first two matches of the second leg. This led to the SRH management dropping him for Jason Roy. Many weren’t surprised about the left-hander getting dropped but what stuck everyone’s mind was his absence from the dugout.

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Add to it, David Warner was seen  responding to a comment on stay, he won’t be a part of playing XI anymore which hinted that he is having a tiff with the management at the moment. Many had doubts about the same when he was axed from captaincy earlier in the season.

The debate intensified further on Thursday (September 30), when the Australian opener posted a cryptic message on his Instagram story. The message read: “It’s not about who is real to you face, it’s about who stays real behind your back.”

This is the first time David Warner has  not been one of the highest run-getters for SRH for Sunrisers Hyderabad since he started playing for the franchise. This season he has scored only 195 runs in 8 innings which attracted a lot of critcism. But his previous seasons in the Orange jersey have been no less than prolific.

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Since 2014, the southpaw scored – 528 (2014), 562 (2015), 848 (2016), 641 (2017), 692 (2019), and 548 (2020) – a whopping amount of runs for SRH and was almost every time the highest run-scorer of the team. Warner should feel hard done if he is released by the franchise ahead of the mega auction after just one bad season.