Top ten performances by David Warner across all formats

#4 173 vs South Africa (Cape Town 2016)

Warner punches one through the off side en route to a monumental 173

For the fans of the Kangaroos, Australia’s tour of South Africa in 2016 will be one series that they would’ve quickly forgotten. Ahead of this match, the Proteas were leading 4-0 in the series and were threatening to inflict an ignominious whitewash on Steven Smith’s men.

In the fifth and final ODI, South Africa posted a mammoth total of 327 on the board and a clean-sweep seemed inevitable.

Warner who plundered truckloads of runs in the series notched up a ‘take-no-prisoners’ 173 off just 136 deliveries, scoring more than half of the target. He struck a staggering 24 boundaries and, although he kept the Kangaroos in the hunt till the very end, the South Africans were always a step ahead in the contest. In the end, Warner’s heroics were in vain as he lacked support from the other end and the South Africans won convincingly.

This lion-hearted innings by Warner will go down in the history of ODI cricket as one of the great knocks to ever be played in a losing cause.