The David Warner Show is operating repeats.
In the second innings of the second Test towards the West Indies, the Australian opener as soon as once more discovered himself dismissed simply as he appeared set to get going.
Roston Chase bowled large of off-stump and enticed Warner into taking part in a drive however as an alternative of sending the ball into the stands at Adelaide Oval, he edged it onto the stumps.
It was an identical story to the primary innings in Perth, and once more the primary innings in Adelaide, when Warner nicked a large Alzarri Joseph supply straight to wicketkeeper Joshua da Silva.
Even Warner’s contribution on Saturday was the identical, scoring 28 in his second stint at Adelaide Oval and within the 25 innings since he final introduced up a Test century in January 2020, he has averaged 28.1.
The solely Australians taking part in in Adelaide to common much less in that point are the workforce’s specialist bowlers.
Timely too, for the 36-year-old, given he admitted earlier than the beginning of the Test summer time he wanted runs to maintain the stress off and play in collection towards India and England earlier than he finally retires.
With each innings, the query is whether or not he’ll get the prospect to make that decision.
The scenario on the pitch bares similarity to that off it.
Just when Warner appears to be like to have lastly survived the aftershocks of the ball-tampering saga, they arrive to life once more.
That’s hardly Warner’s fault.
Warner’s social media publish on the day earlier than this Test not solely ripped open the unhealed scars of Cape Town, however started a course of that will solely expose new wounds.
The fallout has included Cricket Australia having to defend they misplaced management of the method for the evaluate of Warner’s lifetime management ban, handing it over to an impartial panel who needed the listening to carried out in public.
Warner stated that will solely injury himself, his household and his teammates, claiming the parameters set meant that fateful day in March 2018 could possibly be gone again over once more.
CA disagreed, adamant that will not be the case. But the tip result’s a agency highlight on each the organisation and its chief govt Nick Hockley.
Then there have been the feedback from Warner’s supervisor James Erskine, who not solely thrust the ball-tampering saga again into the headlines however created new ones in his claims concerning the Hobart Test in 2016.
Erskine’s assertions that gamers got permission after that match to tamper with the ball have been denied by former executives, however former Test captain Michael Clarke has already known as for an investigation.
“At the end of the day no one wanted to hear any more of it and (Warner) has got on playing cricket,” Erskine instructed SEN.
Warner has continued to listen to extra of it, although, simply as he continues to listen to that the time is nicely overdue to hit some type with the bat.
