Ex-Australia Star's "It's Over" Post Goes Viral. Fans Relate It To David Warner's Retirement

06.01.2024 - 15:15 sports.ndtv.com

Australian cricket team batter David Warner ended his Test career with an emphatic eight-wicket win over Pakistan in the third Test match in Sydney to complete a sensational whitewash in the three-match series.

Warner announced ahead of the series that this will be his last in Test cricket and he ended up scoring a half-century in his final innings.

While Warner received a lot of praise and tributes following his final Test match, a cryptic post by former Australia teammate Damien Martyn has gone viral on social media. "#thankgoditsallover," Martyn wrote on X (formerly Twitter). #thankgoditsallover While the former Australian cricket team batter did not explain the context of his social media post, fans connected it to Warner's retirement and some of them were not happy.

Warner went out the way he began with a rumbustious innings to guide Australia to an eight-wicket victory and 3-0 Test series sweep over Pakistan in Sydney on Saturday.

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