Warner fined, suspended until start of Ashes David Warner will miss Australia's two warm-up matches before the Ashes. David Warner has been fined $11,500 and suspended until the first Ashes Test next month over a nightclub altercation in Birmingham with England batsman Joe Root. The 26-year-old pleaded guilty at a Cricket Australia disciplinary hearing on Thursday night where it was determined that he would be stood down for the rest of the Champions Trophy one-day tournament and Australia's Ashes warm-up tour matches against Somerset and Worcestershire. Warner had swung what was described to Fairfax Media as a "glancing blow" at the chin of the young Yorkshire batsman in the early hours of Sunday morning at the Walkabout bar in Birmingham. Australian players including stand-in captain George Bailey knew about Warner's nightclub altercation with Root for ""a few days"" but did not tell senior management because they believed it was a ""very minor incident"." Having already been suspended from Australia's washed-out Champions Trophy match against New Zealand at Edgbaston Warner faced the hearing in Melbourne via telephone hook-up on Thursday night. He was expected to explain to Cricket Australia's senior code of behaviour commissioner, Justice Gordon Lewis, 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. Root reportedly told England management he was wearing the wig on his chin as a joke about his inability to grow facial hair. Warner was facing the music four days after the incident itself. It remained unclear exactly when team management on the ground in Birmingham were first told about the altercation but it appears they were kept in the dark for more than a day. Bailey, standing in for the injured Michael Clarke, said players had been aware that Warner had been in a nightclub stoush for ""a few days"." ""But it's being dealt with. From my point of view [I am] disappointed. But [it's] a very minor incident and it's being dealt with in-house,"" Bailey said, before adding unintentionally of Warner's suspension: ""I thought he took it on the chin and his attitude around the group today was outstanding. No pun intended."" Warner had been at the Australian-themed nightspot with teammates Clint McKay, Mitchell Marsh, Phil Hughes, Matthew Wade and Glenn Maxwell after Australia's 48-run defeat to England last Saturday night but while word spread around the playing squad about the run-in with Root it is believed it did not reach travelling officials for at least another 24 hours. Senior team management including coach Mickey Arthur, manager GavinDovey 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. Contrary to the players" indifference to the affair and attitude that it was minor, top cricket officials were furious at Warner's conduct. It is understood the left-hander grabbed the wig from Root's face and then, as the Englishman protested, executed a ""jumper punch"" that made minimal contact. Warner sent a text message to Root later on Sunday to apologise. Other England players at the bar included Stuart Broad, Steven Finn and Chris Woakes while International Cricket Council officials were also there. Warner's actions were described as ""unprovoked"" by England management but Bailey defended his teammate after the game against the Black Caps was abandoned. ""I really enjoy playing cricket with him. Love playing cricket with him,"" Bailey said of Warner, who only three weeks earlier was fined $5750 over a Twitter rant at cricket writers. ""Love his enthusiasm. Love his energy around the group. Love the way he plays. I wish I had the talent that he does and I think he's a particularly generous teammate. [He is] very giving. I'm looking forward to hopefully playing a lot more cricket with him in whatever career I have."" A spokesman for the venue 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). English media quoted bar staff who said Warner had been drinking Jager-bombs and vodka Red Bulls and had been sighted regularly since Australia arrived in Birmingham. Warner was criticised heavily by former England captain Michael Vaughan. ""I'm all for players relaxing and having fun. But to go and punch an opposing player unprovoked in a bar, you've got to have some kind of screw loose to do that,"" Vaughan said. 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. ""Things got heated in a bar, David Warner chinned Joe Root and then apologised, let's get on with the cricket."" Poll: Should David Warner be sent home from the tour of England? Total votes: 14544.