Tampering row: Warner’s wife suffered miscarriage
SYDNEY: The wife of disgraced cricketer David Warner revealed Thursday she suffered a miscarriage in the aftermath of her husband’s part in a ball-tampering scandal that rocked the game.
Candice Warner said the couple lost the baby a week after his press conference in Sydney in March after he was sent home from Australia’s tour of South Africa and banned for a year.
She attributed the loss to stress and an arduous flight home, describing the couple’s devastation at realising she was miscarrying.
“I called Dave to the bathroom and told him I was bleeding.
We knew I was miscarrying. We held one another and cried,” she told the Australian Women’s Weekly magazine.
“The miscarriage was a heartbreaking end to a horror tour. The ordeal from the public humiliations to the ball-tampering had taken its toll and, from that moment, we decided nothing will impact our lives like that again.”
The couple already have two children, Ivy Mae, 3, and Indi Rae, 2, and Warner said she discovered she was pregnant again in Cape Town.
“We were overwhelmed, knowing another little Warner was on the way,” she said.
“I don’t think either of us realised how much we longed for this baby.”
Australia’s tour of South Africa had started badly, with Warner charged with bringing the game into disrepute during the first Test for an altercation with Quinton de Kock.
Warner claimed de Kock made a “vile and disgusting” remark about his wife.
“That attack during the first
Miscarriage was a heartbreaking end to a horror tour. The ordeal from public humiliations to the balltampering had taken its toll. CANDICE WARNER, David's wife
Test in Durban when Quinton called me names -- I should’ve known it wasn’t going to end well,” said Candice Warner.