David Warner has declared his 2019 struggles will likely be close to irrelevant heading into the Ashes, with the opener vowing to take a extra aggressive strategy than 4 years in the past.
Warner confirmed on Saturday this 12 months’s Ashes will likely be his final away Test tour, with the 36-year-old planning on retiring from red-ball cricket halfway by way of the upcoming dwelling summer time.
But to maintain his spot and get his dream farewell in Sydney towards Pakistan subsequent January, Warner will want far higher returns than when he averaged 9.5 in England 4 years in the past.
The left-hander admitted he had been too defensive in that sequence, however mentioned he would enter this sequence a unique man.
Warner was dismissed seven occasions by Stuart Broad in 2019, with not one of the outs coming from an attacking shot.
“If I’m critical of myself, it was probably going away from my game plan which is looking to score,” Warner mentioned.
“I was listening to some other voices, which for my perspective, probably didn’t suit my game.
“I felt like I batted my finest at Leeds (with a 61) and that was the way in which I usually performed. If you possibly can put the bowlers off their line and lengths and put strain on them.
“That’s how you score runs. That’s when I’m at my best.”
Warner mentioned that strategy was boosted by the very fact he’ll enter Wednesday’s World Test Championship last towards India and subsequent Ashes sequence straight out of the IPL.
He was Dehli’s main run-scorer within the match with 516 at a median of 36.85 and strike-rate of 131.63.
“In that format, you have to look to score and I think that’s held me in good stead for this preparation,” Warner mentioned.
“Here I’ve actually been superb (in training). My feet have been moving, my energy has been moving. I’ve been up and about.
“Sometimes when I’ve led from red-ball state cricket right into a Test match sequence I’ve gone out of to outlive and altered my traits of my batting.
“It helps me more when I go from white-ball cricket to red ball because I’m in that mode of looking to score.
“I’m glad to nick off enjoying cowl drives, somewhat than a front-foot defence and getting bowled or nicked off from there.”
The other difference from 2019 in Warner’s mind is also the Dukes ball.
Openers averaged 20.22 in that series across both teams, as Broad also wreaked havoc against Marcus Harris and Cameron Bancroft at the top for Australia.
Warner joked when asked about that series if it could be considered “void” for openers, in a reference to Broad’s claim the 2021-22 Ashes did not count due to COVID restrictions.
But the veteran Australian is serious about the fact those returns will not linger in his mind come the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston on June 16.
“I look again and take a look at the dismissals and take a look at each opening pairs. That was a tough time to bat,” Warner mentioned.
“I seemed on the 2019 Dukes ball in comparison with the 2023 ball, it is fully totally different as effectively.
“There was a higher pronounced seam back then … It was hard to tackle. Once you got in the ball still moved around for for the 80 overs.
“It was tough. There was nothing to do with any of my approach or something.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
