D avid Warner's failure in the first Test of the Border- Gavaskar jewel has opened a debate among former cricketers about whether the star Australia nature should be dropped for the Delhi Test against India or not? India Cricket News
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The left-handed batsman scored 1 and 10 in two innings in Nagpur, which Australia lost to India by innings and 132 runs. Warner's poor performance at the top of the order prompted his former teammate Mitchell Johnson to call for his exclusion.
"I will drop David Warner, promote Matthew Renshaw to the opening, and bring Travis Head into the middle order," Johnson wrote in his column for West Australia.
Warner went to Nagpur against a bad day in the Sydney Test and a double Test century against South Africa in Melbourne. The senior player was part of a four-day training for the Australian team in Bengaluru as the guests did not conclude for any practice game or stint match.
In the Nagpur Test, not only Warner, but other batsmen also failed to make an impact as Australia did not understand the mind of the Indian spin bowlers.
While Johnson demanded the addition of Travis Head, the 29- time-old wicketkeeper- batter's record in Asia has been below par. Head equaled 21.30 in Asia and scored only 23 runs at a normal of 7.66 against Sri Lanka recently. WARNER HAS in no way BEEN DROPPED
With Head's poor record, it's doubtful that Australia will drop Warner, who has no way been dropped from the side except for a one-time suspension in the fate of the Sandpaper reproach in 2018- 19. still, Warner has had tone- uncertainties while playing in the sub-mainland.
During a stint of Sri Lanka in 2016, Warner had said" You've got to be patient enough. They are( boundary balls) the bones you've got to really stay on. You've got to stink the bullet. That didn't last long. A month subsequently, after some failures, also what he said. You got to suppose out of the box. However top, one's got your name on it, and one's going to unkink You're sitting duck when you're facing 6 balls in a row If you defend."
also, Australia Test captain Pat Cummins indicated that there would only be tweaks in approach rather than changes in the top- order.
After the defeat in Nagpur, Cummins said, "We have played very well in the last 12 months. There was not a lot of damage in that changing room. I don't suppose we need to resuscitate the wheel, it's just tweaking different approaches to how we play and maybe particular styles."
The 2nd Test between India and Australia in Delhi will begin on February 17.