IND vs AUS: I’d drop David Warner, says Mitchell Johnson

Former Australia pacer Mitchell Johnson in his column for the West Australian, has mentioned that David Warner ought to be dropped for the second Test after scores of 1 and 10 within the first Test in Nagpur.

“I would drop David Warner, elevate Matthew Renshaw to open and bring Travis Head into the middle order,” Johnson wrote.

Travis Head’s exclusion from the Nagpur Test elevate eyebrows. But Head’s report in Asia has been beneath par, the southpaw averages 21.30 in Asia, and comes off a tour of Sri Lanka the place he scored 23 runs at a mean of seven.66.

“If it’s about a horses for courses policy based on previous form in the subcontinent, why didn’t that apply to Warner?”, Johnson wrote.

“That’s where it got murky for me.”

Despite the grim nature of the defeat in Nagpur, it stays unlikely that Australia will drop their star opener – since debuting for Australia in 2009, Warner has by no means been dropped from the nationwide aspect barring a one-year interval of suspension in 2018-19.

In the previous Warner have had self-doubts about enjoying within the sub-continent.

In 2016, on a tour of Sri Lanka, Warner cleared his throat: “You’ve got to be patient enough. They’re (boundary balls) the ones you’ve got to really wait on. You’ve got to bite the bullet.” That didn’t final lengthy. A month later, after some failures, here’s what he mentioned. “You acquired to suppose out of the field. If you defend, one’s acquired your identify on it, and one’s going to straighten… You’re sitting duck while you’re going through six balls in a row.

Same factor in 2017 India. Patience discuss. Then how he must assault Ashwin. Didn’t work.