He has scored 3 half-centuries in 6 matches. Except the first match, in all five, he has provided a solid start to the team. In the match played on Thursday night (DC vs KKR), this opener batsman of Delhi Capitals scored 42 runs of 26 balls against Kolkata Knight Riders.
Chasing a small target of 146 runs, Delhi Capitals comfortably won this match by 4 wickets. After having a splendid start, they struggled but in the end, Delhi Capitals achieved the target for 6 wickets in 19 overs. This is Delhi’s fourth win in 8 matches in IPL 2022. At the same time, this is the sixth defeat of KKR in 9 matches. The road to the playoffs has also become next to difficult for previous year finalists.
David Warner is the highest run-scorer in the history of IPL if we exclude Indian players. His consistency has been the best in the business.He has become the first player overall to score 1000 runs against two teams of T20 league.
Apart from KKR, he has scored more than 1000 runs against Punjab Kings. Also, Rohit Sharma has done this against KKR and Shikhar Dhawan has done this against CSK. Except these three, no other batsman has touched 1000 runs against a team.
David Warner has scored 1005 runs in 22 innings against Punjab Kings at an average of 53 with 12 half centuries and highest score of 81 runs. His strike rate has been 142 which is impressive because he has hit 106 fours and 37 sixes.
Against KKR, he has scored 1018 runs in 26 innings at an average of 44 with 2 centuries and 5 half-centuries. The strike rate has been 146 and 100 fours and 40 sixes have come from his willow.
If we look at David Warner’s overall IPL record, he has made 5710 in 156 matches at an average of 42 with 4 centuries and 53 half-centuries. He is a pocket size dynamite who has scored this much runs at a strike rate of 141. He has hit more than 500 fours and more than 200 sixes. His overall T20 record is impressive, he has scored more than ten thousand runs with 8 centuries and 88 half-centuries.
That is, 96 times he has played an innings of more than 50 runs. He also did well in last year’s T20 World Cup and Australia won the T20 World cup for the first time.