Sydney: While Australian batsman David Warner lapped up the accolades he attracted for his two centuries in the recently-concluded opening Test match at the Adelaide, little did his fans realise that the swashbuckling and controversial batsman nearly didn't play the Test.


David Warner's fiancee Candice Falzon celebrates her man's hundred with their daughter Ivy Mae on Day Four of the Adelaide Test against India on December 12. Pic/Getty Images  

Warner's fiancee Candice Falzon wrote in her Daily Telegraph column yesterday that she didn't think her man would be up to it to take the field after the death of his mate Phillip Hughes. Warner was on the field as a New South Wales player when he was struck by a Sean Abbott bouncer last month.