Star opener David Warner and cricketer-turned-commentator Michael Slater have denied stories of their involvement in a drunken bar brawl in Male, the place Australian cricketers competing within the now-suspended IPL are ready to board a flight residence in a number of days’ time.
According to the ‘Daily Telegraph’, Warner and Slater obtained right into a late evening bodily altercation after a heated argument on the Taj Coral Resort the place they’re in quarantine.
But Warner, who captained Sunrisers Hyderabad earlier than being changed by Kane Willaimson simply earlier than the suspension of IPL as a consequence of a number of COVID-19 instances contained in the bio-bubble, and Slater, additionally a former Australia opener, stated “nothing happened”.
“There is absolutely nothing to the rumour mill Buzz. Davie and I are great mates and absolutely zero chance of (having) a fight,” Slater was quoted saying by foxsports.com.au.
Warner additionally stated: “There has been no drama. I don’t know the place you get this stuff from. Unless you have been right here and have gotten concrete proof you may’t write something.
“Nothing happened.”
Warner and Slater are in a bunch of 39 Australians, comprising gamers, coaches and help employees, to have flown to the Maldives on Thursday on a constitution flight organised and paid for by the BCCI.
Slater, who was commentating within the IPL, had left for Maldives sooner than the opposite Australians awaiting clearance to return residence on the finish of a journey ban Down Under on arrivals from India May 15.
Slater had made headlines after he lambasted threats of jail time and fines for returning Australians put in place by his authorities as a “disgrace” and stated Prime Minister Scott Morrison had “blood” on his palms.
Morrison had described Slater’s feedback as “absurd”.
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