David Warner fined, suspended until start of Ashes for Walkabout stoush David Warner's immediate Test future is in serious jeopardy despite being spared an early flight home from England. The opener was on Thursday night fined $11,500 and suspended until the first Ashes Test at Trent Bridge starting on July 10 over a nightclub altercation in which he took a swing at England batsman Joe Root. The money is not a problem. The issue for Warner will be forcing his way into an Australian batting order without facing a single ball in the warm-up tour games against Somerset and Worcestershire, which he is banned from as well as the remainder of the Champions Trophy. With five openers contained in the Australian squad - Warner, Ed Cowan, Chris Rogers, Shane Watson and Phil Hughes - there had already been suggestions that the 26-year-old may have to be shifted down the order. The recalled Rogers, 35, should be an automatic selection in Nottingham as he tops the English county cricket run-scoring tally this season with Middlesex while Cowan is also in good touch with Nottinghamshire and deserving of being retained. Even a move down to the middle order now seems at lengthening odds now for Warner, however, with selectors having to pick him for the Ashes opener without a practice match under his belt. CA have also ruled out Warner from playing in either of the Australia A touring party's final two matches against Ireland and Gloucestershire, the first of which starts on Friday in Belfast. Officials were on Thursday night in the process of formulating a pre-Ashes plan for him but it is most likely he will be restricted to training. The 26-year-old pleaded guilty at a Cricket Australia disciplinary hearing on Thursday night presided over by CA's code of behaviour senior commissioner Justice Gordon Lewis. The pair are not strangers. This was the second time in three weeks Warner had appeared before Justice Lewis - via telephone hook-up on both occasions - over a disciplinary matter. Last month Warner was fined $5750 over a social media rant at cricket journalists. Australian players including stand-in captain George Bailey had regarded the altercation between Warner and Root in Birmingham's Walkabout bar on Saturday night as a ""very minor incident"" but CA management and Justice Lewis have taken a different view. Warner, already suspended from Australia's washed-out Champions Trophy match against New Zealand at Edgbaston on Wednesday, explained that the incident was triggered by his belief that Root, 22, was mocking the South African cricketer Hashim Amla, who is Muslim, by wearing an upside down, green and gold wig as a fake beard at the pub. Whatever the case the "glancing blow" Fairfax Media was told Warner subsequently delivered towards the chin of Root has done more damage to the Australian. Warner barely scraped the Yorkshireman and the dispute between the pair was settled by the Australian's apology by text message the next morning. However, Warner is facing the very real prospect of his time on the sidelines being extended throughout the English summer via selection rather than sanction. He was already under pressure to emphatically justify his place at the top of the order in which he averaged 24.37 and saw his career average drop below 40. Now he has etched his name back in the CA bad books he may not even get that chance, an outcome that would be shattering for the Sydneysider approaching his first Ashes series. Despite the players' belief the incident was minor - team management were as a result not aware of it until more than a day later - there was an expectation of heavy punishment after four players were stood down for a Test on the tour of India in March for not submitting performance feedback. Warner had been at the Australian-themed nightspot near the hotel where the Australian and England teams were staying, with teammates Clint McKay, Mitchell Marsh, Phil Hughes, Matthew Wade and Glenn Maxwell, as well as England players and ICC officials, also in a VIP section at the bar after Australia's 48-run defeat to England last Saturday. Bailey, Australia's stand-in captain, defended Warner after the washed-out game against New Zealand at Edgbaston that leaves the team's semi-final hopes hanging by a string. Love playing cricket with him,"" Bailey said of Warner. A spokesman for the bar in Birmingham's Broad Street district said the altercation in the bar's VIP area had been ""dealt with very amicably and quickly"" - it was bowler McKay who pulled Warner away from Root - and that Warner had settled a drinks tab of £32 ($52.80). However, legendary England all-rounder Ian Botham wrote in the Daily Mirror that the incident should be forgotten. ""It will be blown out of proportion but I don't think it is a big deal,"" Botham said. Senior team management including coach Mickey Arthur, manager Gavin Dovey and Clarke - who was in London receiving treatment on his back - are understood to have begun an investigation once they were finally made aware of the allegations two days after the incident. Other England players at the bar included Stuart Broad, Steven Finn and Chris Woakes.