David Warner
David Warner is a batter who has represented Australia Cricket across 374 matches and a succession of franchise sides around the world, with the Indian Premier League as his primary competition. Across 584 appearances in total, he has scored 26,263 runs at a batting average of 42.63 and a strike rate of 97.14. His most recent stretch of form came in the 2025-26 Big Bash League, where he posted four consecutive unbeaten innings for Sydney Thunder, including scores of 130 not out and 110 not out, before a quieter run in the 2026 Pakistan Super League that closed with a first-ball duck on 9 April 2026.

2026 Season Context
Current team & role
Sunrisers Hyderabad · All-Rounder
Recent form
Warner's most recent ten appearances span the 2025-26 BBL season and the 2026 Pakistan Super League. His BBL run included four consecutive unbeaten knocks of 67, 130, 82 and 110, before a quieter PSL
Strongest format
Indian Premier League — With 184 matches, 6,567 runs and a strike rate of 139.66, the IPL is the competition where Warner has played most and scored most. His average of 41.5
Career stats overview
112 Test · 154 ODI · 318 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.
Test
112 matches
Where his legacy was forged — the format that rewards patience and precision.
ODI
154 matches
The middle-overs architect — a decade of white-ball consistency.
T20I
318 matches
Brief but impactful — quality over volume in the shortest format.
Format-aware deep dive
Where he dominates
Home record
Average 21.4 on Indian soil — better than any active spinner of the era.
Fourth-innings force
A third of his Test wickets come on day five, when bowlers decide outcomes.
Lower-order resilience
At No.7 his average beats every Indian specialist in that slot since 2015.
Elite opposition
Combined record vs Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa.
Consistency
Third-most by any Indian bowler since his Test debut.
WTC presence
In the conversation every cycle. Central to this India red-ball side.
Career threads
Beyond the numbers
26,263 runs across five competitions
Warner has accumulated 26,263 runs from 584 matches at a batting average of 42.63, spanning Test cricket, ODIs, T20 Internationals, the IPL and the BBL. The breadth of that record across formats and leagues places him among the most prolific batters of his generation by volume.
IPL: 184 matches, 6,567 runs at a strike rate of 139.66
The Indian Premier League is Warner's primary competition by matches played. He averages 41.56 there across 184 appearances, striking at 139.66. Those numbers reflect a sustained ability to score at pace over a long period in the most competitive T20 franchise environment in the world.
Adelaide Oval average of 70.63 across 23 matches
Warner's numbers at Adelaide Oval stand out across all his venue splits. In 23 matches there he has scored 1,907 runs at an average of 70.63, making it comfortably his most productive ground by average. His returns at the SCG (2,202 runs at 51.21) and Rajiv Gandhi Stadium (1,655 runs at 61.30) are similarly strong.
Average of 57.00 against Pakistan across 43 matches
Against Pakistan, Warner averages 57.00 from 43 matches, his highest average against any of the major Test-playing nations in his opponent splits. By comparison, his average against England across 76 matches sits at 34.06, making Pakistan clearly his most productive opposition on the numbers.
BBL 2025-26 form: three unbeaten fifties and a century
In the 2025-26 Big Bash League season, Warner posted scores of 130 not out (65 balls), 110 not out (65 balls), 82 not out (56 balls) and 67 not out (51 balls) across four consecutive innings. All four were unbeaten knocks, suggesting his side's results rather than his own form brought those innings to a close.
Head-to-head
Vs opponents
Career totals broken down by the teams DA Warner has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.
England
- Matches
- 76
- Runs
- 3,406
South Africa
- Matches
- 60
- Runs
- 3,141
- Wickets
- 1
India
- Matches
- 57
- Runs
- 2,666
Sri Lanka
- Matches
- 48
- Runs
- 1,942
Pakistan
- Matches
- 43
- Runs
- 2,793
New Zealand
- Matches
- 36
- Runs
- 2,049
West Indies
- Matches
- 32
- Runs
- 1,477
- Wickets
- 3
Kolkata Knight Riders
- Matches
- 28
- Runs
- 1,093
Grounds played at
Home & away grounds
The venues where DA Warner has turned out most often.
Sydney Cricket Ground
- Matches
- 41
- Runs
- 2,202
Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi
- Matches
- 39
- Runs
- 1,175
Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad
- Matches
- 33
- Runs
- 1,655
Melbourne Cricket Ground
- Matches
- 32
- Runs
- 1,687
Dubai International Cricket Stadium
- Matches
- 29
- Runs
- 1,051
Adelaide Oval
- Matches
- 23
- Runs
- 1,907
- Wickets
- 1
The Gabba, Brisbane
- Matches
- 23
- Runs
- 1,510
M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
- Matches
- 17
- Runs
- 495
Official profile
Elsewhere on the web
ESPNcricinfo
DA Warner's profile
Historical aggregates derived from Cricsheet (cricsheet.org) under ODC-BY licence. 2001/02–2026 IPL seasons. Batting average uses dismissals as the denominator; bowler wickets are credited only for bowler-kind dismissals (bowled, caught, lbw, caught-and-bowled, stumped, hit wicket). Venue and opposition splits are rebuilt after every ingest from the Cricsheet archive.
Photo credits (1)
- David Warner — photo by YellowMonkey/Blnguyen, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source