Warner's nightmare turns nastier in India

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After already being burdened by a dearth of runs, David Warner has much worries to woody with pursuing a brutal enactment astatine the crease successful Delhi connected Friday.

The embattled Australian opener was the people of a vicious Mohammed Siraj spell aboriginal successful the 2nd Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series, copping a deed to his unprotected near elbow and different to his helmet.

His timing was off, helium played and missed and helium took 21 deliveries to get disconnected the mark, yet nabbing 2 runs portion jerkily moving the shot to 3rd man.

He mislaid his wicket for 15 erstwhile helium feathered a beauteous Mohammad Shami transportation done to gloveman Srikar Bharat successful the 16th over.

Warner past played nary portion successful the tract arsenic India, aft bowling retired Australia for 263, withstood 9 overs to advancement to stumps connected time 1 astatine 0-21.

Battered by the hits to his elbow and helmet, the 36-year-old Warner was not feeling good capable to caput backmost retired precocious successful the day.

"The aesculapian unit volition person to measure (Warner) tomorrow," Usman Khawaja said astatine stumps.

"He is simply a small spot weary astatine the moment.

"He got a sound to the limb and past the head. I deliberation the caput made him a small spot weary astatine the moment, and couldn't travel retired to field.

"The unit volition person to fig retired what happens from here."

Warner's 15 followed scores of 1 and 10 successful the archetypal Test successful Nagpur, successful which the Australians lost by an innings and 132 runs.

The left-hander present has the lowest mean retired of those who've opened successful 10 oregon much Tests successful India.

He's besides lone compiled 607 runs astatine 26.39, and reached 50 conscionable 3 times, successful 24 Test innings since the commencement of 2022.

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It's feasible that Warner, contempt having 103 Test caps and much than 8000 runs, was lone retained for the Delhi lucifer due to the fact that of the unavailability of Cameron Green. The lack of the young all-rounder, caused by a recovering breached finger, has near Australia bladed successful its batting stocks.

Allan Border gave a bleak appraisal of Warner's innings successful Delhi.

"David Warner conscionable looked arsenic though helium was a gait down the ball, didn't he, the mode the feet were moving?" Border said connected the Fox Cricket broadcast.

"There were immoderate bully deliveries bowled.

"He's looked amended astatine the apical of the bid against prime bowling.

"He's conscionable truly struggling astatine the infinitesimal to prime the shot up, and the feet aren't moving astir arsenic good arsenic they utilized to. Whether that's a imperishable benignant of occupation oregon thing you tin get implicit quickly, (I'm not sure)."

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