LIVE: Ponting's grave fear for Warner's future

David Warner has dominated headlines this week aft releasing an explosive connection connected the eve of the Adelaide Test, successful which helium announced his withdrawal from the reappraisal process into his beingness enactment ban.

But it's his aboriginal successful Test cricket that looms arsenic the existent communicative of the summer.

Warner, 36, is playing his 98th lucifer successful the baggy greenish but his days astatine the apical of Australia's bid look numbered, unless helium tin drastically crook astir immoderate thin form.

In Adelaide helium has been dismissed for 21 and for 28. In Perth past week helium wqas bowled for 5 successful the archetypal innings, past scored 48 successful the second.

He hasn't scored a period since January 2020 - astir 3 years agone - and his Test mean successful the past 2 years is simply a measly 28.12 compared to his wide Test mean of 46.29.

Cricket fable Ricky Ponting is acrophobic if Warner can't find runs against a second-rate West Indies attack, he volition conflict moreso against South Africa, and besides successful India and England adjacent year.

"You speech astir however things are getting tougher for Warner with the onslaught the South Africans person got. Well, it's ne'er casual successful India either," Ponting said connected Seven's coverage.

"We cognize what wickets we volition get there. We volition get turning pitches. No doubt.

"It's ne'er been casual for immoderate Australian batsman going determination and trying to play successful those conditions. Then connected the backmost of that, what's aft that? The Ashes, successful England arsenic well.

"We volition get conditions that volition suit (Stuart) Broad, (Jimmy) Anderson and (Ollie) Robinson."

Warner had a miserable travel to England successful 2019 erstwhile helium was dominated by Broad successful particular, being dismissed by the paceman 7 times successful 10 innings, and amassing lone 95 runs successful full for the series.