Warner’s wife: I feel like it’s all my fault
AUSTRALIAN former vicecaptain David Warner’s wife Candice said yesterday she blamed herself for his part in the ball-tampering scandal, adding that the taunts they faced in South Africa took a huge toll.
Opening batsman Warner was banned for one year from domestic and international cricket over the plot to change the condition of the ball on the third day of the third Test against South Africa.
In a tearful press conference in Sydney on Saturday, the 31year-old spoke of his fear that he would never play for Australia again.
“I feel like it’s all my fault and it’s killing me – it’s absolutely killing me,” Candice told News Corp.
The Test series was already fractious before the ball-tampering affair, with a row between Warner and Quinton de Kock during the first Test which the Australian said was sparked when the South African insulted his wife.
Two senior Cricket South Africa officials were also photographed with three spectators wearing All Black rugby player Sonny Bill Williams face masks during the second Test in reference to a reported intimate encounter Candice had with him in 2007 before she met Warner.
“Dave would come home from the game and see me in tears in the bedroom, and the girls just looking at their mum, – it’s been heartbreaking,” she said. “I always put on a strong front and I turn out to the games. But seeing them wearing the masks, to have people staring and pointing and laughing at me ... I would have to sit there and cop that.”