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David Warner Fail thread

Tangles

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No viable alternative is the issue really. He has always looked like his technique could go very wrong once his eye goes. This might be the start of it.

If he can go ok at home but stinks it up away then that’s a tough call. Especially if you don’t have the other opening spot settled.
 

TheJediBrah

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He's in wretched form and I'm slightly surprised he wasn't dropped for this Test, but there's no way they will or should drop him long-term. He's a proven Test player of serious quality in a position where Aus are seriously lacking. This is an issue of form, not ability. He's 32, and if he stays fit and behaves he could have another 5 years ahead of him.
lol they're seriously lacking because of him being crap
 

TheJediBrah

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If Renshaw isn't any good and there are no domestic openers knocking the door down I'd be happy to see Khawaja along with a middle-order player like Patterson or Pucovski opening. Bancroft and Harris have burnt their credit IMO.
 

TheJediBrah

Well-known member
Hussey went from opening to middle order. Surely the reverse is possible too.
The reverse has happened a lot. Australia's most successful recent opening pair in the late 00s, Watson and Katich, were both middle-order players randomly pushed up to play as openers.
 

Daemon

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That’s crazy talk.

Cupboard is bare and he’s had one bad series.

Kohli would’ve been dropped after 2014 England with this sort of attitude.
 

Cabinet96

Global Moderator
Only just read this https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/27591680/coming-right-arm-you

Warner has one of the biggest differentials between over the wicket and round the wicket average. Obviously a lot of that is Broad but it's also Archer and probably others in the past I can't think of. I wouldn't at all be surprised if he went back to Aus and piled on the runs, but teams will also be very alert to this as a tactic now. He'll have to do a lot of work on how he shapes up to that angle.
 

TheJediBrah

Well-known member
That’s crazy talk.

Cupboard is bare and he’s had one bad series.

Kohli would’ve been dropped after 2014 England with this sort of attitude.
If he can't score in the first 3 or so Shield rounds (potentially 6 innings) why would we pick him after this?
 

aussie tragic

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If he can't score in the first 3 or so Shield rounds (potentially 6 innings) why would we pick him after this?
Warner only gets 2 shield rounds before he plays the T20's vs Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Can see him do stuff all in shield, score lots in T20's, gets rested for the 4th round shield game to be fresh for the first test...


...unfortunately
 

the big bambino

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Haven't heard boo from Warner since the Ashes. Maybe he needs time away but would have been good taking the opportunity in the 50 over comp to score some runs. I don't even know if he's playing grade right now.
 

Burgey

Well-known member
He hasn't thus far. Not named this week for round two either.
 
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