'Drop Warner': Test great wants star axed

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David Warner's Test vocation is hanging by a thread, with reports Australia is considering axing the 36-year-old for the 2nd Test.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Travis Head, controversially dumped for the opening match, could unfastened the batting successful Warner's spot successful Delhi connected Friday.

The Herald cites anonymous sources adjacent to the team who confirmed discussions on those lines person taken place.

Warner made 1 and 10 successful the archetypal Test, and averages conscionable 22.16 successful Tests successful India, having reached 50 successful conscionable 1 of his past 13 innings successful that country.

The left-hander's struggles aren't restricted to India - he's averaged 29.96 implicit the past 3 years, an output that simply can't beryllium sustained. Also connected the selectors minds volition beryllium the information that Australia heads to England successful June, wherever Warner had a disastrous circuit successful 2019.

Fast bowler Mitchell Johnson has written a file for the West Australian calling for his erstwhile teammate to beryllium axed, taking purpose astatine the selectors, who omitted Head from the archetypal Test squad contempt his existent ranking arsenic the 4th champion successful the world.

"I would driblet David Warner, elevate Matthew Renshaw to unfastened and bring Travis Head into the mediate order," Johnson wrote.

"If it's astir a horses for courses argumentation based connected erstwhile signifier successful the subcontinent, wherefore didn't that use to Warner?

"That's wherever it got murky for me."

Former Australian skipper Mark Taylor said aft the archetypal Test thrashing that helium feared the determination to omit Head could person semipermanent implications.

"I interest astir the intelligence harm that whitethorn person been done to Travis Head due to the fact that what the selectors person told him is that they don't person large religion successful him connected those sorts of pitches," helium said.

"That's not what you request erstwhile you're going successful to bat successful places similar India."

Taylor said helium expected Warner to clasp his spot for the 2nd Test.

"David's been astir agelong enough, and I cognize he's had plentifulness of opportunities [but] I deliberation you've got to springiness him astatine slightest the adjacent Test lucifer to get it right," helium said.

Meanwhile, the 3rd Test, which was to beryllium played successful Dharamsala, volition beryllium moved due to the fact that the crushed is not ready. The outfield was precocious re-laid to instal caller drainage.

Indore and Rajkot are 2 grounds nether information to signifier the match.

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