AS FLUFFY AS IT GETS
either. Hopefully he can turn it around and get a big one for us at the Oval.”
On all available evidence that’s hardly likely, with Warner at the top of a list of opening batsmen who have failed to get out of first gear.
Of the six different openers to face the new ball through four Tests, only Englishman Rory Burns has made any runs.
But five of those batsmen are newcomers to Test cricket, with Burns the most experienced, behind Warner, having played just 11 Tests. find answers to his Stuart Broad problem, after getting THE wait for David Warner to out to the veteran seamer six get himself out of his funk is times in eight innings. over and it’s now up to Australian As bunnies go, Warner is as selectors to decide what to fluffy and floppy-eared as you do with him. could possibly get.
A bank of 6363 Test runs “He’s admitted himself that before the Ashes began was Broad’s had the wood on him the core rebuttal to any debate … and he’s been talking to myself about whether his horror returns discussions about his place in and Justin (Langer) and through the opening the side to the top of Australia’s Hicky (Batting coach Graham three Tests should have wider priority list before the fifth Hick) about ways he can play,” ramifications. and final Test. Smith said.
But his twin ducks at Manchester, Steve Smith, who has been “He’s tried a couple different his survival for just in another batting world while ways and they haven’t eight balls, on the back of a second watching Warner’s repeat failures, quite worked. But Davey’s a ball duck in the second innings said his former vice-captain quality player and he hasn’t at Headingley, has lifted has been asking for help to had a great deal of luck this series CONTINUED PAGE 37
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