Australia coach Justin Langer on Sunday hailed explosive opener David Warner’s work ethic and starvation for runs, saying he was by no means unsure about his potential to come back good within the ongoing T20 World Cup regardless of struggling for kind forward of the event.
The 35-year-old Warner had been wanting sport time and runs over the previous 12 months however made a welcome return to kind on Saturday, smashing an unbeaten 89 — the best rating by an Australian at a T20 World Cup — within the eight-wicket victory towards the West Indies.
“He (Warner) is literally elite fit. He’s always fit, but he’s at a different level at the moment and that tells me … you don’t just flick a switch and become fit, you’ve got to work very hard at his age,” Langer mentioned.
“You saw the way he played, ran between the wickets in hot conditions, and that’s a great tribute to his professionalism and how hungry he is to keep playing great cricket,” he was quoted as saying in cricket.com.au web site.
Having Warner again to his greatest could make the Australians a troublesome proposition for any opponent within the knockout stage.
Australia certified for the semifinals as Group 1 runners-up on the premise of higher internet run fee than South Africa, who ended third and eradicated from the event regardless of beating toppers England on Saturday.
England, Australia and South Africa ended with eight factors every and prime two within the desk was selected the premise of internet run fee.
Langer and his nice good friend Matthew Hayden, who cast one in every of cricket’s greatest opening partnerships, will turn out to be enemies for a probable semifinal conflict between Australia and Pakistan. Hayden is at present the batting coach of Pakistan.
Pakistan have been the dominant crew of the event and they’re prone to end Group 2 winners — in the event that they beat minnows Scotland — which is able to set them up towards Australia within the semifinals.
“We’ve been back and forth messaging throughout the tournament. He’s (Hayden) really enjoying (coaching Pakistan’s batters). No insights though, we’ve been keeping business to business,” Langer mentioned.
“It’s going to be good to see him because I haven’t seen him for a long time. There’s lots of relationships in cricket, but when it comes to Thursday night, we’ll put our friendships down for three hours and we’ll get down to business so it should be good fun.”
Langer and Hayden opened the batting collectively in 113 Test innings, smashing 5655 runs at a median 51.88 throughout a golden period of Australian cricket.
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