The choice warmth on David Warner is about to ramp up, with Australia’s opener dismissed off his first ball towards South Africa because the sandpaper scandal 4 years in the past.
Warner’s summer time with no half-century continued along with his first-ball duck and his place within the aspect for subsequent 12 months’s Ashes tour of England might be in jeopardy.
Warner took his eyes off the ball and readily available off the bat as he tried to fend away a brutal Kagiso Rabada brief ball, however might solely flip it not far away to Khaya Zondo at short-leg.
The diminutive South African batter leapt from a standing begin and took a surprising catch at full-stretch to assert the prized scalp.
The Brisbane Test is the primary between the 2 nations because the collection stricken by the ball-tampering scandal of 2018, with Warner lacking out on the third and remaining match of that collection.
Warner’s place within the aspect is now the shakiest it’s been since he returned from a 12-month ban he was slapped with for his function within the incident and comes after he dropped his enchantment utility to towards a life-time management block.
