David Warner: The Last Aussie standing the matches
The stereotypical version of an Aussie batsman’s technique, for some of us from an earlier generation. Lot more arms, a sense of compactness, preference for punchy shots, boxer’s rapid foot movement in stance to the pacers, the horizontal strokes, the on-the-up salvos, and the sudden deceleration to soft-handed tip-and-runs.
The world cricket nearly didn’t have him. When he was 13, Warner was told by his coach to switch to right-hand as he was hitting the ball too much in the air but a season later, with the backing of his mother Lorraine, Warner made the crucial decision to revert; who knows what’s to say what would have happened if he hadn’t.
Not that no one played it; of course they did. Even Ravi Shastri, usually not associated with that shot.The Indians tend to collapse the arms a bit, and allow the wrists to enter the scene. Aussies jabbed like boxers. Warner does it. With him, perhaps since he is a left-hander, he punches more through covers. A young Warner was a lot more fiesty, pouncing on even length balls, if he was confident enough that there was no great deviation off the pitch, to punch.
He told us he had just been out of luck and out of runs, not out of form or in decline.
He told us with his bat. He told us with his celebration. David Warner is back. And it was like he never went away.
hat Steven Smith was there with him to celebrate was serendipitous. Smith and Warner will forever be linked for a number of reasons. Oddly, despite being the two best Australian batters of their generation
About david warner
David Andrew Warner is an Australian international cricketer and a former captain of the Australian national team in limited overs format and a former Test vice-captain
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