David Warner is poised to carry his spot for the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford after coaching with Australia’s slip cordon alongside Mitch Marsh on Monday.
Warner’s place has been within the highlight within the lead-up to the beginning of the potential sequence decider on Wednesday following his failure in each innings at Headingley.
Complicating the matter was Marsh’s century whereas filling in for injured allrounder Cameron Green in Leeds, with that pair now each out there and preventing to play.
There had been hypothesis that both Marsh or Green may doubtlessly open with Usman Khawaja at Old Trafford, leaving Warner out within the chilly.
But any signal of that was was largely killed off at coaching on Monday, with Warner practising at first slip and Marsh at gully whereas Green ran with squad reserves.
It suggests Australia will make solely the one change for the fourth Test, with Josh Hazlewood more likely to are available for Scott Boland.
The improvement comes after Khawaja mentioned Warner would play as his opening associate.
“Yep,” he mentioned, when requested if he anticipated to stroll out alongside Warner.
“From my point of view Dave Warner has been one of the greatest openers of all time.
“It is him and Haydos (Matt Hayden) proper up there for Australia. The prime two ever.
“So I will always back Davey no matter what, and the other guys will too.”
Warner had earlier joined Khawaja and Marcus Harris to face the brand new ball within the nets on Sunday.
Warner and Khawaja share a detailed bond, having opened the batting collectively in junior cricket in Sydney earlier than being reunited final 12 months on the prime of Australia’s order.
And Khawaja mentioned it was straightforward to miss the work the pair had carried out collectively on this 12 months’s Ashes, together with three successive half-century partnerships in robust situations.
“It’s massive, and a thankless job,” Khawaja mentioned.
“We go out there and got a really good start at Lord’s in heavy overhead conditions. I got out just last over before lunch but that sets up the game for us.
“Steve Smith comes out and batted within the sunshine and will get the attractive 100.
“As an opener, sometimes you don’t always record your good days on how many runs you made. Sometimes it’s just about just grinding through those tough times.
“We’ve had three 50-run partnerships towards Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad.
“That is as tough as it gets in England. You have to pay some respect to that.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
