‘Candice suffered two miscarriages’: Warner reveals further family pain

David Warner reveals the further family pain suffered in the ball-tampering saga fallout.

David Warner. Picture: AP

David Warner revealed the stresses on his family during his suspension for ball tampering and cheating went beyond what has been known, detailing that his wife Candice suffered two miscarriages.

Mrs Warner is due to have the couple’s third child — another daughter to join Indi Rae, four, and Ivy Mae, two — in England next Monday in a planned delivery that fits around Warner’s World Cup commitments in England.

Mrs Warner has previously said she suffered a miscarriage as a result of the stress and abuse the family received during the sandpaper-gate furore, but Warner said after the Lord’s triumph over England on Tuesday that the difficulties at the time resulted in successive miscarriages.

He noted that “we would have had one (baby) before this”.

Candice Warner with her daughters Indi and Ivy. Picture: Dylan Robinson

Reflecting on how his life has been up-ended in the past 15 months — from the turmoil of Cape Town to his suspension and then to being back playing in Lord’s and finding form, he said:

“Yeah definitely (it has been a sign of how life changes). It was unfortunate we had two miscarriages during that time and we would have had one (baby) before this but that’s just what happens and I’m looking forward to obviously the baby coming out and then still concentrating on cricket. That’s my first priority once that’s done.”

Warner is expected to open the batting against New Zealand at Lord’s on Saturday and then head to hospital with Mrs Warner.

“Hopefully I will get through the game and then wait, wait for the baby to come out. Then our preparation starts when I get back to Manchester (to play South Africa on July 6).”

Warner listens to Lewis Capaldi music on headphones to calm himself down in the nets and has been using different techniques to cope with the fierce abuse from the stands.

The booing and jeering when he comes to the crease has been persistent throughout this tournament, none more so than at Lord’s, but Warner said when he was fielding near the boundary he took his glasses off and “looked everyone in the eye and just smiled”.

“I thrive on that stuff, I love it,” he said.

“I went out in the corner there today and copped it. At the end of the day you have to smile, they pay their money to come and watch us and we are grateful for them to come and sit down and watch us. We try and put on a good show for everyone.

“I always just smile, I take my glasses off and look everyone in the eye and just smile. The is what is about, I am living the dream, I am out here at Lord’s, playing cricket for my country.”