On Tuesday Australian opening batsman David Warner said that a good wicket amalgam with India‘s destitute bowling attack and fielding helped him to get his third ton of the series and place Australia at a commanding 348 runs for the loss of two wickets at stumps on day one of the 4th and final Test at Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG).
Warner scored 101runs and Chris Rogers scored 95 runs as Australia put on 200 runs for the opening wicket to give the Australians a boosting start. The batsmen exploited from some poor fielding, like Chris Rogers was dropped on 19 runs by KL Rahul at 2nd slip, on the other hand Shane Watson enjoyed a life as Ravichandran Ashwin let go off a chance at 1st slip off the second last ball of the day.
David Warner said after the 1st day’s play, that when a team are not fielding at their best, then everything else also does not go in their favour. If the tempo is rising from the start, the chances should be taken. They too have done it before, missed a couple of chances in the slips.
He added that it does really set the tempo from the first ball. They tried and flourished on that when they saw that. He thinks their heads were down when they were 100 runs for no loss of wicket and that is hoped some times in the field. They did not get their line and length correctly.
David Warner also explained that there was no swing and sideways movement so he has to try and dry up the runs at any cost. It must have been annoying for Virat Kohli because it is difficult to do the captaincy when the bowlers bowl both sides of the wicket.
David Warner divulged that Australia were lucky to have won the toss. He was quoted saying: “We were lucky that the coin fell our way and it was a fantastic toss to win. 348 for two is a fantastic position to be in. There was no swing or sideways movement at all, so it was quite challenging for the Indian bowlers. It’s going to be challenging for us to take 10 wickets as well. We have to dry runs up when we bowl.”
Image Credit: sbs