David Warner, who was named his country’s best male cricketer for the 2016, is in the form of his life. Warner has been scoring runs for Australia at the top of the order consistently across all three formats of the game. But, he has been given a big challenge by his Test captain Steve Smith. Australia’s next tour will be of India and it will be a tough one as Australia don’t have a very good record in India when it comes to Test cricket, and India, the number 1 Test team, in very good form.
Smith insisted that if Australia want to do well in India, David Warner would have to rectify that blip on his record. Warner has scored ust one of his 18 Test hundreds in Asia, from nine matches played on the continent.
This is what Steve Smith said:
“It’s pretty important that our senior players step up in those conditions and take control,” Smith told ESPN.
“It’s something we didn’t do overly well in Sri Lanka (during last year’s 3-0 series defeat), and we didn’t get the results that we wanted there.
“The senior players – myself, Davey, (Mitchell Starc), Josh (Hazlewood) and Nathan Lyon – need to step up and really take control.
“I’m going to do it differently to Davey; you don’t want to get rid of someone’s natural flair and the way they play.
“But if he gets to a hundred, it might be about knuckling down again and going big, get 200 or 300, like Karun Nair did (for India against England) a few weeks ago.
