David Warner was 'terrified' witnessing people in India building funeral pyres to cremate their relatives during the Covid crises that devastated the country.
He and other cricketers, along with commentators, coaches and support staff were part of a 37-strong Australian contingent in the country for the Indian Premier League.
The competition was postponed in May as the humanitarian crises unfolded with hundreds of thousands of cases of the potentially deadly virus being confirmed each day.
David Warner (pictured with wife Candice) said the Australians in India for the IPL witnessed makeshift funeral pyres in the streets as the country was hit with their Covid wave
The Australians were evacuated out of the country to the tropical archipelago of the Maldives where they undertook two weeks of quarantine before they returned to Australia and were released from isolation on Monday.