David Warner’s missing Baggy Green Test Cap has been found – although the retiring Aussie opener has given no insight on where it was located or who took it in the first place.
Warner is currently playing in his 112th and final Test match for Australia against Pakistan, where he made 34 in the first innings.
Previously he had taken to Instagram on Tuesday launching an emotional appeal for the return of his Baggy Green cap.
His prized cap was in a backpack that had gone missing in transit between Melbourne and Sydney this week.
On Friday morning he revealed that the Baggy Green has been returned safe and sound.
Warner’s Baggy Green was lost in transit from Melbourne to Sydney after a backpack he owned went missing
‘Hi everyone, I am very pleased and relieved to let you all know that my baggy greens have been found, which is great news,’ he announced on Instagram today.
‘Thanks to all involved and I am extremely grateful. Qantas, the freight company, our hotels and team management. Thanks you.’
It comes after his earlier plea to find the Baggy Green, in which he implied the backpack had been stolen.
‘Unfortunately somebody has taken my backpack out of my luggage which had my backpack and my girls’ presents in there,’ Warner said ahead of the SCG Test.
‘Inside this backpack was my baggy green. It’s sentimental to me. It’s something I’d love to have in my hands walking out there this week.
‘If it’s the backpack you really wanted, I have a spare one here. You won’t get into trouble.
‘Please reach out to Cricket Australia or myself via my social media. I’m happy to give this to you if you return my baggy greens.’
Some fans used Warner’s happy news as an opportunity to take the mickey out of the star and suggest the drama only happened because he ‘left the cap on the nightstand’
Some cricket fans used Warner’s happy announcement on Friday morning – and the fact he didn’t reveal how the cap was found – as an opportunity to make jokes at the star’s expense and humorously suggest he was the reason the headgear went missing.
‘You left it in your hotel room in Melbourne didn’t you?’ one wrote.
‘Davy Dumb Dumb lost it himself, but won’t accept any of the blame,’ another commenter said.
Other similar comments included, ‘Great story you made up Davo’, ‘Given u haven’t mentioned where it was found assume u had it all the time or didn’t pack it as originally made out’ and ‘Left it on the nightstand didn’t ya Davey’.
Daily Mail Australia does not suggest Warner was in any way dishonest about what happened to the cap.
Other fans took a different angle and suggested the cap was taken by rivals from Warner’s long career.
‘Respect to Stuart Broad for giving it back,’ one fan wrote, referring to the English cricket star who is famous for having a great record against the Aussie.
‘Babar took?’ another asked, referring to Pakistan star Babar Azam, who is playing in the current series.
Convicted drug trafficker Schapelle Corby stole some of the thunder away from Warner, though, with a cheeky reply to his appeal on social media.
‘Qantas! Well do I have a story for you,’ she posted accompanied by an exploding head emoji.
A relieved Warner has announced the safe return of his prized Baggy Green that he wore throughout his entire career
Warner had to borrow a spare Baggy Green to wear in his 112th and final Test match against Pakistan at the SCG
Corby is famous for her high-profile legal case and incarceration involving drug trafficking in Indonesia.
Her legal defence team had raised the possibility that a Qantas baggage handler planted marijuana in her boogie board bag.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had been one of the high profile identities that had joined the appeal for Warner’s Baggy Green to be returned.
‘And I do hope, it hasn’t happened already, whoever knows anything about the missing caps, David Warner has represented Australia on more than 100 occasions,’ he said earlier in the week.
‘The baggy green caps belong to him. He has earned them and they should be returned.’
Teammate Mitch Marsh had jokingly claimed that he was the culprit.
‘I probably should tell him it’s been in my backpack for the last couple of days,’ Marsh said.
‘A weird situation and it could probably only happen to Davey.’
