Former Aussie captain drops shock David Warner revelation

Former Aussie captain drops shock David Warner revelation

Former Australian cricket captain Tim Paine has detailed whispers he’s heard from throughout the Aussie camp surrounding David Warner’s place within the crew.

As the 2023 Cricket World Cup edges nearer, hypothesis over Warner has ramped up and simply the place he’d bat within the Aussie order.

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Paine mentioned the whispers surrounding the 36-year-old are that his place within the batting order will fall, doubtless seeing him bat at both 4 or 5.

“That’s something I have heard,” Paine mentioned on SEN Tassie.

“It’s going to be imperative to get off to really fast starts and right now, Travis Head and Mitch Marsh are our most explosive players.

“I think Warner can come in at No.4. He’s a good player of spin, he’s fast between the wickets, he’s also got power and can control the innings.

“So I like having him in the middle order in those conditions. And I have heard that from a few people, that it’s certainly been talked about.”

The transfer would see Head and Marsh open the batting for Australia. A partnership that was prolific throughout their three match ODI collection towards India in March.

Through the three matches the partnership piled on 194 runs with Marsh dominating whereas opening the batting.

He completed the collection as Australia’s main run-scorer and was named the participant of the collection.

Marsh scored 81 within the first ODI earlier than combining with Head for an unbeaten stand of 121 as Australia gained the second sport by 10 wickets. Marsh then scored 66 not out from 36 balls, with Head making 51 from 30.

Warner returned to the squad for the third and closing ODI the place he batted fourth and made 23 runs from 31 deliveries.

In June, Warner introduced his plans to step away from Test cricket on the finish of the subsequent dwelling summer season, explaining his need to have a farewell tour concluding at his beloved Sydney Cricket Ground.

Warner mentioned whereas he wished to complete his profession on his dwelling floor, he meant to proceed taking part in limited-overs codecs for Australia by way of to the 2024 T20 World Cup.

“You‘ve got to score runs,” Warner mentioned.

“I’ve always said the (2024) World Cup would probably be my final game.

“I probably owe it to myself and my family – if I can score runs here and continue to play back in Australia – I can definitely say I won‘t be playing that West Indies series.

“If I can get through this (WTC final and ensuing Ashes campaign) and make the Pakistan series I will definitely finish up then.”

Originally printed as Tim Paine drops shock David Warner revelation forward of World Cup

Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au