Cricket generally is a recreation of large highs and cavernous lows, and one man that has skilled all of them is David Warner.
The 101-Test nice has scored 25 Test centuries at a mean of 46.20, however he has been criticised for his performances that aren’t on bouncy, pacy Australian pitches at residence.
He averages 58.39 at residence, and 32.78 away from residence, and notably has struggled within the ragging turners on the Indian subcontinent.
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In India, he averages 24.25 with a excessive rating of 71, a far cry from the 19 centuries he has plundered at residence.
New footage can reveal the toll that Warner’s struggles in Asia have had on him, with the boy from Matraville in Sydney’s jap suburbs talking for the second season of the Amazon documentary sequence The Test.
Previously nicknamed ‘the Bull’ for his domineering persona and aggressive batsmanship, Warner opened as much as the cameras in a method audiences and followers haven’t seen earlier than.
He reveals he retains a journal, and displays again on one specific diary, relationship again to the primary two Tests of the now notorious “Sandpapergate” sequence in South Africa.
“Some good memories and some not so good memories,” Warner recollects.
“It’s got a lot of good positive affirmations that I stand by every day.”
Camera pictures of the diary in query, nevertheless, reveal some much less philosophical ideas at occasions.
One entry, dated to August 27 2017, reads “I am done. 1 game to go and never again touring subcontinent.
“Too much stress on my mind that I don’t need.”
Warner had been trapped in entrance late on the primary day’s play by Bangladesh’s Mehedy Hasan Miraz within the 1st Test at Chattogram, departing for simply eight.
It adopted a tough Test tour of India in February and March of that yr for Warner, the place he averaged 24.12, solely passing 50 as soon as.
His struggles in opposition to Test groups within the subcontinent weren’t restricted to the mainland both, with Warner describing his recollections of 2016 tour of Sri Lanka as “f**king s**t”.
“Memories were horrible, he recalled.
“I was getting beaten both sides of the bat with the spinning ball.”
Documentary footage reveals Warner within the ultimate episode of the sequence getting trapped in entrance once more, this time by spinner Ramesh Mendis in Galle.
“I f**king keep missing those!” he exclaims.
Whilst the pink ball in India shall be a problem for Warner within the upcoming Test tour, he has discovered it a contented looking floor in limited-overs cricket.
In 2017, the yr Warner declared he would “never again” tour the subcontinent, he received the Orange Cap because the main run scorer within the Indian Premier League, and averaged 49 within the ODI sequence in opposition to India instantly previous the Bangladesh tour.
He has since travelled to Pakistan and Sri Lanka, averaging 33.80, with two fifties in 5 innings and a excessive rating of 64, and 21.33 respectively.
