David Warner is relieved that retiring from international cricket will mean silencing the constant "flak" he has copped since the Newlands ball-tampering saga.
Cricket Australia's review into the events of March 2018 painted Warner as the chief orchestrator of Sandpapergate, a scandal that cast a shadow over Australian cricket and led to wholesale changes within the national team's culture and leadership.
Cameron Bancroft received a nine-month ban from the sport for rubbing sandpaper on the ball in Cape Town, while Warner and Steve Smith were each suspended for a year and the latter also stripped of his captaincy.
