David Warner

[GraemeSmith]

Australian Sehwag

 

[Faisal1985]

He certainly is a good opener in the making for Australia...

 

[NUFAN]

I think he's the wildcard player that Australia must select if we are to win the ODI World Cup.

He's not going to come off all the time, but we are going to bat down to 8 or 9 with the likes of Johnson (who hopefully gets some batting form soon) and Hauritz so I think a player like Warner will be very useful.

He's obviously good enough to play International T20 Cricket..

 

[BoyBrumby]

Why "Lloyd"? So hope it's a Dumb & Dumber ref.

 

[AlanJLegend]

If he can improve his longer form batting (not just his T20 batting which is amazing) I wouldn't mind him seeing him bat #7 in the test team with Haddin at 6. Obviously this would not be for a few years and his name would be well behind the likes of North/Smith/White/Bailey/Hughes/others however I can just imagine him being brought in early just before an Australia declaration and adding 80 runs in the course of 10 overs. It would be awesome.

 

[GotSpin]

Way to stupid to succeed in the longer formats

 

[slippy]

Warner wants life outside Twenty20 box


David Warner is sick of hearing about being a Twenty20 specialist and hopes his outstanding form in the short game doesn't stop his dreams of winning a baggy green. Warner's strong starts with Shane Watson are one of the reasons Australia are undefeated heading into the Super Eight match against Sri Lanka in Barbados on Sunday.

Warner has 114 runs in 71 balls during the first three games, including an onslaught of seven sixes in his 72 against India. "A lot of the guys in the team take the mickey out of me about being a Twenty20 specialist," he said in The Sunday Telegraph. "Your ambition as a kid is to play Test cricket and wear the baggy green. That's always been my goal."

The performance against India earned him the Man-of-the-Match prize and he is becoming a big target for opposition teams. Sri Lanka have lost Muttiah Muralitharan to a groin injury but the side has fast and slow threats in Lasith Malinga and Ajantha Mendis that Warner will have to overcome.

Warner said he hadn't spoken with the selectors about his prospects in the other forms of the game. "It's probably better that those guys don't come up to me and tell me what to do because it could play with my head," he said. "I know what I have to do."

He played with Virender Sehwag, another brutal opener, with Delhi in the IPL and asked for tips. "I said: 'What game do you think would suit me?' He said: 'This [Twenty20] is your game, but Test cricket will be the key. All the field is up, opening the batting there you can play your shots.'

"The hardest thing about Twenty20 cricket for me is that you have to keep looking at the scoreboard. There are times when you have to pull it in a little bit. But once you're going and the adrenalin is going, you're all pumped up and you want to keep scoring runs."


David Warner wants life outside Twenty20 box | Cricket News | ICC World Twenty20 2010 | Cricinfo.com

 

[Jono]

Interesting comparing the thoughts on Warner on CW over the last two years compared to what Sehwag immediately thought of him:

Australia v New Zealand, 1st Test, Brisbane: What Virender Sehwag saw in David Warner | Cricket News | Australia v New Zealand | ESPN Cricinfo

Virender Sehwag saw the Test batsman in David Warner before he realised it himself. Drawn towards a Twenty20 career before his methods matured, Warner was in Delhi when Sehwag helpfully suggested the man synonymous with cricket's shortest form would make a better player in its longest.


The conversation startled Warner, at that stage still yet to receive a baggy blue cap for New South Wales. But Sehwag was prescient, for little more than two years later, Warner is about to open the batting for Australia in a Test match against New Zealand. It has helped that others, Greg Chappell among them, also saw the potential for far more than 20 overs' racy batting.


"Two years ago when I went to Dehli, Sehwag watched me a couple of times and said to me, 'You'll be a better Test cricketer than what you will be a Twenty20 player'," Warner recalled. "I basically looked at him and said, 'mate, I haven't even played a first-class game yet'. But he said, 'All the fielders are around the bat, if the ball is there in your zone you're still going to hit it. You're going to have ample opportunity to score runs. You've always got to respect the good ball, but you've always got to punish the ball you always punish'."


The conversation with Sehwag may have been the start of Warner's drive towards batsmanship worthy of a Test match, but it was also helped along by Chappell. On the Australia A tour of Zimbabwe, Cricket Australia's national talent manager told Warner his brief sessions in the nets were not going to prepare him for lengthier innings, and encouraged a more longwinded approach. It worked.

 

[Athlai]

If Warner succeeds will some Indian paper claim that Australia's batting woes were fixed by Sehwag?

 

[honestbharani]

Warner naturally favours the off-side, very strong through point.

In longer forms of the game, he thrives on width; the "width predator" tag that James Brayshaw is very correct. He opens himself up in Twenty20 cricket to allow him a swinging arc when the ball is over the pegs.

I think he could quite definitely be a quality first class cricketer, if given a chance to bat as himself, and at number 5 or 6. That's where he's made to play in the longer forms of the game. He was seen as a super finisher in OD cricket as a youth, and I think he could possibly carve out a role like that in the future.

Another instance where Jack is spot on. Very much the Simon Taufel among CW posters and mods, IMO.

 

[honestbharani]

Interesting comparing the thoughts on Warner on CW over the last two years compared to what Sehwag immediately thought of him:

Australia v New Zealand, 1st Test, Brisbane: What Virender Sehwag saw in David Warner | Cricket News | Australia v New Zealand | ESPN Cricinfo

Virender Sehwag saw the Test batsman in David Warner before he realised it himself. Drawn towards a Twenty20 career before his methods matured, Warner was in Delhi when Sehwag helpfully suggested the man synonymous with cricket's shortest form would make a better player in its longest.


The conversation startled Warner, at that stage still yet to receive a baggy blue cap for New South Wales. But Sehwag was prescient, for little more than two years later, Warner is about to open the batting for Australia in a Test match against New Zealand. It has helped that others, Greg Chappell among them, also saw the potential for far more than 20 overs' racy batting.


"Two years ago when I went to Dehli, Sehwag watched me a couple of times and said to me, 'You'll be a better Test cricketer than what you will be a Twenty20 player'," Warner recalled. "I basically looked at him and said, 'mate, I haven't even played a first-class game yet'. But he said, 'All the fielders are around the bat, if the ball is there in your zone you're still going to hit it. You're going to have ample opportunity to score runs. You've always got to respect the good ball, but you've always got to punish the ball you always punish'."


The conversation with Sehwag may have been the start of Warner's drive towards batsmanship worthy of a Test match, but it was also helped along by Chappell. On the Australia A tour of Zimbabwe, Cricket Australia's national talent manager told Warner his brief sessions in the nets were not going to prepare him for lengthier innings, and encouraged a more longwinded approach. It worked.

SehWAG

 

[Spikey]

Still think though down the order is an option in ODers.

 

[Prince EWS]

Still think though down the order is an option in ODers.

I still think he's too boundary-reliant in general for one day cricket bar the odd freak innings; I've said so for ages. Probably does need to bat seven or so just as a power hitter really. Sehwag was spot on when he suggested his style would suit the longer version more as long as he got his head and his defence right, which he seems to have.

 

[Spikey]

i mean, i remember in the off-season when the aus a teams got picked, the usual people complained about warner being in the fc squad, but being in the OD squad was much worse. and then being picked in SA....

Warner to being up a debut ton with a switch hit




off martin

 

[robelinda]

I doubt Warner will make 100 runs for the series.

 

[Flem274*]

Warner vs Vettori will be very interesting if Warner is in attack mode.

 

[outbreak]

I'm happy to see he's actually worked to play test cricket. I remember when i first saw him and thought all he was was a bone head who could swing a bat. Then i saw an interview with him before last season (maybe mid last season?) where he was outlining how he wanted to play test cricket and if NSW wouldn't give him a chance to show what he could do in FC he'd change states. Once he got a shot he didn't disappoint either. Would be a good story and a great lesson to the young players these days of how to work and the attitude to have in cricket. Not like the trouble the west indies had.

 

[Jono]

If Warner succeeds will some Indian paper claim that Australia's batting woes were fixed by Sehwag?

Nah, the IPL will come out and say Australia's batting woes were fixed thanks to the IPL

 

[Spikey]

Warner has also credited Justin Langer and Greg Chappell so really...

 

[Jayzamann]

He hasn't embarassed himself in t20, but I doubt he'll ever get a baggy green

Egg, face.