Rain-sodden Birmingham has been home to the Australia cricket team for much of their three-week stay in the UK for the Champions Trophy.
A few hundred metres from the team hotel sits the Walkabout pub - scene of one of the most infamous off-field incidents involving England and Australia players on this date four years ago.
Just as they will on Saturday, the two teams faced off in a Champions Trophy group match at Edgbaston on that fateful night.
After England's 48-run win, players from both sides headed out to the Walkabout where Warner and Joe Root became embroiled in a fracas over a fake green beard being worn by the intoxicated young Yorkshireman.
The fallout saw Warner ostracised from the squad and then banished to an Australia A tour of Zimbabwe before returning for the third Ashes Test at Manchester.
Fast forward to 2017 and Warner is a changed man.
Although the fiery nature can still burn on field and when commenting on the ongoing pay dispute with Cricket Australia, he is now a married father of two and been off the drink for over two years.
The 29-year-old said the incident has changed him for the better and was the wake-up call he needed to get his career back on track to become one of the most destructive batsman in the game.
"It was a learning curve for myself," Warner said.
"I was young and now I'm old. Two kids and married. There's a lot of settling down there."
Once nicknamed the Bull, Warner is now known as 'the reverend' by his teammates, although he concedes there are days he still occasionally raises his horns.
"Here and there, just depends on what day you get me," he said.
"Most of the time, I'm probably the reverend - as they say - but look, it's about coming out and winning games for Australia.
"We all go through periods when young and naive.
"it's not about stuffing up and moving on it's about learning the ropes of being away on tour for such a long period of time.
"There are things you have to think about as a youngster, what can or can't I do.
"I probably didn't work that out at that stage but now I have and have a great balance on and off the field."
The Root situation arose because Warner took exception to what he perceived as him making fun of South Africa star batsman Hashim Amla.
Root, now the England Test captain, has since said the incident was blown out proportion and intimated that he wasn't entirely blameless.
The pair have crossed paths on numerous occasions and even posed for a picture together after the 2015 Ashes series and Warner said he will happily shake hands when they meet on Saturday.
"I didn't really think about what would have come of the situation," he said.
"People didn't look to far or deep into it to see who was in the right or wrong. And that's forgotten.
"But that's all gone. It's in the past and we can tell a happily-ever-after story at the end of my career."
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