There are straightforward targets – after which there’s David Warner sitting within the Lord’s grandstand holding a crossword puzzle guide.
The opener was taking his thoughts off the motion within the center as Steve Smith and Pat Cummins batted throughout Australia’s first innings when the TV broadcast turned its consideration towards him.
Seeing the 36-year-old casually perusing the mind recreation was like lobbing up a sluggish full toss to cricket followers watching at dwelling.
Ricky Ponting obtained the ball rolling by saying in commentary: “I was trying to get a close-up to see if it was a kids’ one or not.”
And it wasn’t lengthy earlier than social media lit up with dozens of jokes at Warner’s expense.
“David Warner is the first person to ask a crossword book if he can buy a vowel,” one wrote.
“Warner pretending to do a crossword, when we all know it’s a dot to dot colouring book he’s attempting to complete,” wrote one other.
Serial reviewer Marnus Labuschagne additionally copped a drive-by.
“Warner doing the crossword must create an interesting dynamic in the dressing room,” one fan wrote. “Which of his teammates would be the most and least useful in that scenario? Marnus probably thinks he’s good at it but would keep suggesting words that don’t fit.”
But the gold commonplace – described by one commenter as “the funniest thing I’ve seen all week” – was this suggestion of the progress Warner was making.
Smith returned to type with a century for Australia, however England hit again to dismiss the vacationers for 416 within the second Test at Lord’s on Thursday.
Smith had flopped with scores of 16 and 6 throughout Australia’s thrilling two-wicket win within the first Test at Edgbaston final week because the Ashes holders went 1-0 up within the five-match sequence.
The 34-year-old put these low totals behind him with an innings of 110 – the thirty second Test century of his good profession, his twelfth in all Ashes contests and eighth in England.
England, nonetheless, recovered nicely with the ball on Thursday evening by taking Australia’s final 5 wickets for 77 runs.
Veteran pacemen James Anderson and Stuart Broad, the 2 most profitable quicks in Test historical past, managed simply two wickets between them.
Instead, it was England’s different two frontline pacemen who did the majority of the injury, with Josh Tongue taking 3-98 in 22 overs on his Ashes debut and Ollie Robinson 3-100 in 24.4.
Australia, regardless of being despatched into bat in overcast situations and on a green-tinged pitch that favoured England’s quicks, had resumed well-placed on 339-5.
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England’s bowlers had did not take advantage of useful situations after captain Ben Stokes gained the toss on Wednesday.
And there have been extra worrying indicators when Broad speared his first two balls down the legside, with left-hander Alex Carey glancing each deliveries for snug fours.
But Broad, regaining his accuracy, had Carey lbw on overview for 22 after rapping the wicketkeeper’s again leg.
Mitchell Starc obtained off the mark in model first ball when he clipped Broad previous mid-on for 4.
But Anderson had Starc nicely caught by wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow to depart Australia 358-7.
Starc’s exit introduced in Australia captain Pat Cummins, whose batting heroics had guided the vacationers to victory in Birmingham.
Smith went to 99 with a lucky nick to 3rd man for 4 off Anderson. Anderson then produced a superb yorker which Smith simply obtained the bat down on in time.
But the very subsequent ball noticed Smith drive Anderson by the covers to finish a 169-ball century along with his 14th 4.
Smith fell quickly afterwards when a booming drive off Tongue was fantastically caught by a diving Ben Duckett within the gully.
Nathan Lyon fell into an apparent hooking lure earlier than Robinson ended the innings when final man Josh Hazlewood was caught within the slips.
– with AFP
Originally printed as Fans destroy David Warner’s crossword try: ‘Funniest thing I’ve seen’
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
