Veteran opener David Warner will depart Australia’s tour of India after struggling a concussion and a fractured elbow within the second Test.
The left-hander will fly again to Sydney on Wednesday and miss Australia’s last two Tests in opposition to India in Indore and Ahmedabad.
Australia are unlikely to name in a substitute participant for Warner with allrounder Cameron Green set to return from a finger damage to bat at No.6 within the third Test.
The vacationers are 2-0 down within the four-Test sequence and their hopes of regaining the Border-Gavaskar trophy are already over.
After scoring a tough 15 on Friday, Warner was subbed out of the match in Delhi earlier than play on day two after failing a concussion check.
Team officers say the damage wouldn’t have prevented Warner from batting within the second innings in Delhi, however he was dominated out of the match with concussion.
He was changed within the XI by Matt Renshaw, however No.5 Travis Head opened in Australia’s second innings and high scored with 43.
Warner’s place within the Test group was already beneath a cloud after he was down on kind for almost all of the final three years.
The left-hander entered the Boxing Day Test in December – his a hundredth match – beneath excessive stress to retain his spot.
But he scored a traditional 200 to finish a Test century drought courting again to January 2020 and ebook his spot for a 3rd red-ball tour of India.
“If Dave’s unavailable it would make perfect sense,” coach Andrew McDonald mentioned of opening with Head.
“We did discuss before coming over here that if we were to lose an opening batter that Trav would be one we’d look to put up there.
“We feel in the subcontinental conditions that he can get off to the fast starts which he showed.”
Warner is just not Australia’s solely damage concern, with new spin sensation Todd Murphy choosing up a “slight niggle” in his facet.
But Murphy bowled with the damage through the second Test and needs to be proper to play in Indore.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
