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David Warner Test record against South Africa

2012-11-09 – 2023-01-04 · Available official international scorecards

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The record at a glance

This study covers 15 Test matches against South Africa with recorded batting or bowling figures: 27 batting innings and 6 bowling innings. Matches with no batting or bowling entry for this player are outside this sample.

Batting runs and dismissals; bowling runs conceded and wickets
Discipline	Innings	Runs	Wickets / outs	Average	Strike rate
Batting	27	1,415	27	52.40	80.07
Bowling	6	88	1	88.00	120.00

Batting average = runs ÷ dismissals; batting strike rate = runs per 100 balls. Bowling average = runs conceded ÷ wickets; bowling strike rate = legal balls per wicket. Rates require fully recorded inputs. A hyphen means unrecorded; N/A means a zero denominator.

Bowling economy: 4.40 runs per six legal balls. Legal balls recorded: 120.

Batting milestones in this sample: 5 centuries and 5 scores from 50 to 99. Balls faced: 1,767.

CAREER BY FORMAT

How the record developed

Available scorecards

Formats are shown separately. These totals cover published scorecards against the twelve national teams; they can differ from complete official career records.

Test

Test · Runs by year

2012206 runs
2014543 runs
2016236 runs
2018217 runs
2022203 runs
202310 runs

Exact yearly figures · 6 seasons

Test archive totals by year
Year	Mat	Bat inns	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	100s	50s	4s	6s	BF	Bowl inns	Wkts	Bowl avg	Econ	Bowl SR
2023	1	1	10	10	10.00	90.90	0	0	2	0	11	0	0	N/A	N/A	N/A
2022	2	3	203	200	67.66	76.02	1	0	16	2	267	0	0	N/A	N/A	N/A
2018	3	6	217	63	36.16	68.67	0	2	31	1	316	0	0	N/A	N/A	N/A
2016	3	6	236	97	39.33	81.09	0	1	33	1	291	1	0	N/A	5.00	N/A
2014	3	6	543	145	90.50	86.74	3	2	59	8	626	2	0	N/A	2.60	N/A
2012	3	5	206	119	41.20	80.46	1	0	29	4	256	3	1	70.00	5.00	84.00

Home, away and neutral conditions

Setting follows the recorded host country. Unknown locations are retained as unknown; venue names alone are not guessed.

Opposition record by match setting
Setting	Matches	Bat inns	Runs	Bat avg	Bat SR	Bowl inns	Wickets	Bowl avg
Home	9	15	655	43.66	79.39	4	1	75.00
Away	6	12	760	63.33	80.67	2	0	N/A

SCORECARD MILESTONES

Career timeline

Milestones found in available scorecards. The first recorded appearance here is not necessarily the international debut.

2012-11-09
First available scorecard
Test v South Africa · Brisbane Cricket Ground
2012-11-22
Best recorded bowling · 1/27
Test v South Africa · Adelaide Oval
2012-11-22
First century in this archive · 119 runs
Test v South Africa · Adelaide Oval
2022-12-26
Highest recorded innings · 200 runs
Test v South Africa · Melbourne Cricket Ground
2023-01-04
Latest available scorecard
Test v South Africa · Sydney Cricket Ground

Recent recorded innings

Scorecards supporting this opposition study
Date	Venue	Innings	Runs	Balls	Wickets	Conceded
2023-01-04	Sydney Cricket Ground	1	10	11	-	-
2022-12-26	Melbourne Cricket Ground	2	200	255	-	-
2022-12-17	Brisbane Cricket Ground	4	3	11	-	-
2022-12-17	Brisbane Cricket Ground	2	0	1	-	-
2018-03-22	Newlands	4	32	67	-	-
2018-03-22	Newlands	2	30	14	-	-
2018-03-09	St George's Park	3	13	21	-	-
2018-03-09	St George's Park	1	63	100	-	-
2018-03-01	Kingsmead	3	28	35	-	-
2018-03-01	Kingsmead	1	51	79	-	-
2016-11-24	Adelaide Oval	4	47	51	-	-
2016-11-24	Adelaide Oval	3	-	-	0	5
2016-11-24	Adelaide Oval	2	11	25	-	-
2016-11-12	Bellerive Oval	3	45	78	-	-
2016-11-12	Bellerive Oval	1	1	4	-	-
2016-11-03	WACA Ground	4	35	33	-	-
2016-11-03	WACA Ground	2	97	100	-	-
2014-03-01	Newlands	3	145	156	-	-
2014-03-01	Newlands	1	135	152	-	-
2014-02-20	St George's Park	4	66	73	-	-

This opposition study uses available scorecards in Cricket Wicket’s twelve-team publication scope. It is a dated archive analysis, not a claim of complete career coverage. Read the coverage and calculation method.