On a gloomy afternoon at the SCG the cricketing prodigy proved that he has what it takes.
Wildly unpredictable results. Teams regularly winning away from home. Runs being scored at a remarkable rate. Test cricket is in rare form. Now we just need the spinners to get a bowl.
In the early 1980s as coloured uniforms,white balls,prime-time TV slots and results achieved in one day were swamping the cricket topography,the death knell of Test cricket was sounded loudly. They were wrong then,and they’ll be wrong again.
Pat Cummins’ Test team has been far from perfect,but they won so many of the watershed moments that victories followed. Big questions remain,however.
The Adelaide Test pitch was a graphic illustration of how football changes cricket.
The shortest path to public notice for the Windies’ young players will be to put up strong resistance against an Australia team very much at the height of its powers.
Mike Whitney has been president of Randwick Petersham for 23 years. His greatest pride – and there are plenty – lies in what he saw from David Warner during his grassroots return.
Producing cricketers takes years of fertiliser and water from mums,dads,coaches,ground staff,councils and a myriad of volunteers,so cashed-up privateers should be making a serious contribution to the bottom line.
The Test and ODI skipper led his team to the top of the mountain in 2023,with a smile on his face and a happy team behind him. The naysayers are quiet now.
Based on the numbers,David Warner deserves the accolades. But the Australian cricket team is not his property or play thing and his form has been declining at Test level for some years.
You could roll out the Kalahari and India would make a winning score,but Australia have the steel for an upset.