Former Australia batsman David Warner was convicted and fined A$1,500 ($1,065) for drink-driving by a Sydney court on Tuesday after being arrested in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Warner, one of Australia’s most decorated cricketers, pleaded guilty after failing a breath test on the Easter weekend when driving his family home in Sydney’s eastern suburbs after a social function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 39-year-old’s blood-alcohol reading was more than twice the legal limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Waverley Local Court heard Warner stopped his car when he saw the roadside breath-testing site and attempted to swap seats with a female passenger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I accept Mr Warner is unlikely to re-offend,” Judge Clare Farnan told the court in comments published by Australian media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“(But) regrettably, drink-driving is still a significant factor in many crashes in New South Wales.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The offence was aggravated because children were in the car at the time, Farnan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Warner, who played 112 tests and over 250 limited-overs internationals for Australia, will need to fit an interlock device in his car which will prevent it from starting if it detects alcohol in his system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He left the court without commenting to a large media pack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Warner’s management did not provide immediate comment when contacted by Reuters <\/em>on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before Farnan’s decision, Warner’s lawyer told the court his client should be spared conviction because he had suffered extra punishment as a result of media coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Commercial opportunities (are) being affected,” Australian media quoted Awais Ahmad as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Warner works for Fox Sports Australia as a commentator and was part of the local broadcaster’s team covering the recent Australia-Bangladesh test in Darwin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He is captain of Big Bash League team Sydney Thunder, which is part of a New South Wales state government campaign to deter drink-driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cricket New South Wales (NSW) did not comment on Warner’s position as Thunder captain when contacted by Reuters <\/em>on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Our organisation is a strong advocate of safe driving, including avoiding drink driving,” Cricket NSW said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We continue to take this incident seriously, including educating all players on the importance of safe driving.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former Australia batsman David Warner was convicted and fined A$1,500 ($1,065) for drink-driving by a Sydney court on Tuesday after being arrested in April. Warner,..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1-10.png",800,947,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1-10-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1-10-253x300.png",253,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1-10-768x909.png",768,909,true],"large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1-10.png",800,947,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1-10.png",800,947,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1-10.png",800,947,false]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Sports<\/a> Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11495,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493\/revisions\/11495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}