The last time India toured Australia, there was a lot of talk on the field among the players, but David Warner says Australia may take a different approach this time. Instead of engaging the Indian players in verbal volleys, they will try to control their emotions and fight with their skills.
However, he also hinted that once Virat Kohli leaves after the first test, to be with his wife at the birth of their first child, and Ajinkya Rahane takes over the captaincy, Australia might reconsider its strategy.
“For me personally, it’s about getting into the contest, so basically it’s when you’re out there, you’re trying to feel something,” Warner said. “Last summer, I was coming from the back of the England tour, so I really had to get my knuckles and try to focus as much as I could, and try to get into a battle and compete with the opposition. different way and it worked, and for me, it’s about trying to find that balance again when I’m in the middle.
“[It’s] different this year. We start with a white ball series against India, usually backwards, which is going to be exciting, and Virat is only playing seven out of ten games, so for us, it’s about going out as a team and trying to control our emotions and play with them “.
But how will you react if the Indian players have a few words to say to you?
“I’ll always take advantage of that, buddy. Trying to compromise, that’s the way they like to play too. We saw it last time when we toured India. They really got us involved like that. We’re learning over time. And trying not to. get involved in that. I’ll probably try to reverse the effect by trying and ignoring it, trying to take it into account and use it against them using their bat. It’s probably something I’ve learned over time. And no, I also know the effect it can have on your teammates. You have to be a little more humble in that regard.
“Obviously, with Virat gone, and congratulations on going home and being by your partner’s side for the birth of your first child … he’s a great guy, Jinks. [Rahane]. He is calm and very measured in his approach. He has a very good cricket brain. When you take Virat out of there, I don’t mean this the wrong way, but he’s obviously passionate, aggressive, he plays that fight when you’re out there.
“Jinks is calm, collected, measured. It is like chalk and cheese with two of them two and as a player trying to involve him on the field, since we are talking about getting involved and entering that competition as players, obviously I have to think about how to do that, especially with Ajinkya as captain. The good thing from India’s perspective is that you have three, if not four, very good players who could captain the team at any time. With him, he will bring a calm and measured approach with his nature. ” .
While Kohli will not be available for the last three rounds, India will not have Rohit Sharma for the cue ball stage. Sharma is currently recovering from a hamstring injury suffered during the 2020 IPL and has only been included in the test team.
Warner believes that Sharma’s absence is a huge loss to the visitors, but at the same time, he also believes that the visitors have enough fit replacements.
“It’s a big part of their team that will be lost, but they have great fit guys, KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan and Mayank. [Agarwal]”Warner said.” These guys played in the IPL so you have guys with good touch and great talent and depth in Indian cricket to take Rohit’s position. It’s a big hole in his team at the top, but there are guys who can replace him and in shape that will do a good enough job, if not better, as we saw in India. “
Warner himself had a successful IPL start despite a slow start to the season. In the first ten games, he scored 335 runs with a strike rate of 124.07. It was then that he decided to open his front leg and hit him. The next six games brought him 213 runs to 155.47.
“Yes, definitely,” he said when asked if he would continue in the same aggressive manner in T20I. “What do you want to see? 100 of ten overs or something? (laughs). In one day things, I will still go out and play like I normally do. There will probably be no change to that. And the T20 material is what people saw there.
“To answer the question of how I played in the backend of that tournament, we had to play that way on those grounds. You couldn’t just play yourself. You had to take those first six overs against the new ball. Here in Australia, it’s a little different in 50+ cricket, you can still play the normal way and I think I showed it last year, the way I played against Pakistan and Sri Lanka. I played pretty much the same way as Lo I did during the backend of that IPL. I won’t change my game and go out there and tackle it like I always do.
“Obviously there is an element of risk, but there is also an element of intelligence in cricket. For me, it’s about getting off to a good start and taking calculated risks in that in-between if we’re talking about 50-year-old games. Yo, it’s about to make sure I’m hitting as much as I can and with a good strike rate as well. “
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