Warner on track to end India run famine
DAVID Warner says he can break his Indian run-drought in the final Test and set up a history-making victory for Australia in Dharamsala.
The dynamic vice-captain went almost 12 months last year without a century before slamming back-to-back hundreds in Melbourne and Sydney to clinch his second straight Allan Border Medal.
Now Warner is drawing on the same reserves to turn around a return in India that in seven Test matches is yet to deliver the knockout innings for which he is famous.
Australia were due to hold their medical recovery session last night in Delhi but early indications suggest pace ace Pat Cummins and his bowling allies have pulled up OK from their exhausting 210-over slog in Ranchi ahead of a fourth Test that at high altitude could suit the seamers.
“That’s what we train for,” Warner said. “The guys have the miles in the legs.”
In 2013 Warner made two half-centuries but on this tour he has 38, 10, 33, 17, 19 and 14.
When the Border-Gavaskar Trophy goes on the line on Saturday at the foot of the Himalayas, the most damaging opener in the world has declared he can climb his Everest.
“I’d like to think so. For the team’s sake we need to get off to a good start,” Warner said.
“I feel fantastic. I couldn’t be hitting the ball any better, but it’s just that the runs aren’t coming for me at the moment.
“That will come, it will turn around. As a partnership, me and Renners (Matt Renshaw) have been getting off to an OK start.
“None for 50 over here, you need those to be none for 100.”