Indian Premier League star batsman David Warner and a Star Sports commentator and former Australia international Michael Slater have categorically denied charges of a brawl between them at a bar in their hotel in the Maldives.
Warner and Slater along with 38 Australians in total, including players, commentators and support staff are currently undergoing quarantine at the Taj Coral Resort post the suspension of IPL 2021, owning to increasing Covid-19 cases in the Bio-bubble created for the tournament.
'There is absolutely nothing to the rumour mill ... Davie and I are great mates and absolutely zero chance of [having] a fight,” Slater, 51 told the Daily Mail.
Australian opener and former SRH captain also went on to clarify, and rather questioned the media for unsubstantiated reports. He said, “I don't know where you get these things from. Unless you were here and have got concrete evidence you can't write anything.” Warner was removed from the captaincy in the ongoing season after his team managed to win only one of the first six matches.
The Australians involved in the IPL are forced to stay in the Maldives as their Prime Minister decided to ban any flights to and from India considering the deadly spread of the second wave of the Coronavirus in the country.
Over 3 lakhs cases are being reported daily and people are dying in thousands daily because of the Covid-19. The foreign stars, therefore, were either transported back to their country or like in the case of Australia, to the Maldives, a notion not in the red list of travel, from where they could take a flight back home post the 'May 15' deadline.