The Bull David Warner: Daring To Be Different

Unveiling cricket’ s greatest entertainer! The first Australian cricketer to play 100 internationals across all three levels (Tests, ODIs and T20s), David Warner is a champion of his generation; fabulous but flawed. No Australian opener in history has surpassed his rapid-fire strike rate in excess of 70 runs per 100 balls. Only one other has surpassed his aggregate of 45 centuries across all levels. Feisty, flamboyant, verbose and villainous, few have been as entertaining or as polarizing as the great David Warner. The Bull is the first full-scale biography of one of Australian cricket’ s champions of the generation. It features the yarns, the stats and all the fun of cricket’ s greatest entertainer. Includes a David Warner’ s Who’ s Who with all the stats and records of his games, a detailed timeline of his career and things you may not have known about Warner including his suspensions, back-to-back rebounds during the Ashes contest with 500-plus runs in South Africa that led to an Australian victory, the 2022-23 season in India that led to former team member Mitchell Johnson calling for him to be dropped, and so much more.

Born the year the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) Test wicket was illegally watered, author and commentator Ken Piesse is Australian cricket’ s master storyteller, who has written, edited or published 87 books on the summer game, including Cricket’ s Colosseum, 125 years of Test Cricket at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Ken was president of the Australian Cricket Society from 2006-22. His Pictorial History of Australian Test Cricket (2016 for Echo/Bonnier) was recognized as the Australian cricket book of the year. He is the author of the bestselling book, On Ya Warnie.

Foreword by Greg Chappell Introduction 1 A moment of madness 2 First flirts with authority 3 The Dom effect 4 Charlie Mac reincarnated 5 Pulled from the nets in Harare 6 Big-time boy 7 Boozed and out of control 8 Candice 9 Losing a brother 10 Kiwi carnage 11 The redhot reverend 12 Beating his chest like Tarzan 13 Attack dog 14 Cape Town 15 Outlaw 16 Broadsided 17 Beating the Don 18 Covid cricket 19 Seeing double 20 Twilight time Afterword Statistics Timeline About the author Index