Australia star Steve Smith believes David Warner will thrive beneath stress because the out-of-form veteran fights to save lots of his Test profession on Boxing Day.
Warner is working out of probabilities to bow out of red-ball cricket on his personal phrases after being eliminated for a golden duck and three by South Africa spearhead Kagiso Rabada throughout the two-day Gabba Test.
The 36-year-old has not made a Test century since January 2020, and didn’t go 50 towards West Indies throughout large wins in Perth and Adelaide.
Warner hopes to play Test cricket till at the very least the top of subsequent 12 months’s Ashes, with a tour of India looming earlier than the five-match sequence in England.
But the choice could possibly be taken out of his arms after averaging simply 20.61 in 10 Tests this 12 months.
Warner’s long-time nationwide and state teammate Smith has backed him to show it round as he prepares to play his a centesimal Test when Australia takes on South Africa on the MCG.
“You only have to look back a (few) weeks ago (to) a one-day game out here (at the MCG) against England, he scored 100 on what was a pretty tough wicket,” Smith stated on Wednesday.
“We’ve seen David when his back’s up against the wall, he’s done pretty well.”
Smith pointed to final 12 months’s Twenty20 World Cup in Dubai, when Warner was struggling however was in a position to flip it round and be named participant of the match.
“It doesn’t matter what format of the game, Davey always plays in a pretty similar way, which has been the beauty of him in Test cricket, being able to take the game on from ball one,” Smith stated.
“Sometimes it doesn’t work, and he hasn’t had a great deal of luck lately.”
