David Warner is the dangerman for us, says Broad
SYDNEY: England paceman Stuart Broad has pinpointed David Warner as Australia’s danger man in the Ashes series, while admitting a begrudging respect for his aggressive mentality.
The opener fired up the tourists last month by comparing playing against England to “war” and said he planned to take “some sort of hatred” into the Tests, which start in Brisbane on November 23.
Broad said Warner, known for his fiery nature on the field, was a perennial danger.
“I think someone like Warner you’ve got to try bowl a lot of balls at him with the new ball, because it’s your best chance of getting him out,” he told the Sydney Morning Herald Thursday.
“(But) you have to have a plan B, and with someone like Warner you have to go to plan B quicker than a lot of other batters.”
While captain Joe Root said before leaving England that Warner’s comparison to war was “extreme”, veteran Broad acknowledged teams needed characters like him to make them great.
“He’s someone that drives teams forward,” Broad said of Warner.
“He’s one of those blokes who is not that enjoyable to play against, but if he’s in your team you love him. You have characters like that in most successful sports teams, don’t you?”
BALL INJURED AS ENGLAND TAKE LEAD
ADELAIDE: Jake Ball added to England’s pace bowling woes with an ankle injury as the tourists took a lead over a Cricket Australia XI on Thursday.
CA XI declared their first innings 60 runs adrift to get in five overs at the tourists under the lights at Adelaide Oval, but England reached stumps on the second day of the four-day game at five without loss.
Nottinghamshire quick Ball appeared to lose his footing in his delivery stride and turned his right ankle as he tried to bowl the fifth ball of his fourth over.