David Warner wants to follow Adam Gilchrist in his batting
David Warner is the first Australian cricketer in 132 years to be selected for a national team in any format without experience in first-class cricket.
He is a new emerging cricketer of Australia, who has been opening for Australia in T20 cricket. He recently said he wants to play as good as Adam Gilchrist played for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 in the opening position.
Warner, who is controlling the opening position for Australia in T20 cricket along with Shane Watson, has really played some outstanding innings in his short career so far and his future looks bright in Australian cricket.
He was speaking to media in India and he said I want to play like http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 starting October 17.
"I see myself as similar to Adam Gilchrist, more of an X-factor player, where I go out there and try to mimic his role as he played. He was aggressive, he might've come off one in five innings as well, but he changed the course of the game”.
However, if Warner wants to follow Gilchrist, he needs to perform consistently. Although both players play quick, Gilchrist was more consistent in his batting performance and used to score runs with more consistency. Something Warner is not able to do currently.
Gilchrist had an average of 36 with the bat and had a strike rate of 97 in ODIs.
The problem which Warner has been facing is that he is not able to pace his innings in ODIs, which is much longer than T20 cricket. He said it is difficult to adjust in ODIs, coming from T20 cricket.
"I felt that I had to keep going the same pace and one tempo, and that's where I reckon I've matured now and I've learned to adapt. There were little things there where I wasn't in the right position, so that's the thing that was out, but if I go back into
the same situation I'm going to do the same thing because it was there to hit”.
Warner needs to know he has got 50 overs not 20 overs and he needs to adjust his batting according to 50 overs cricket.
"But in the end I was probably feeling a bit of pressure because I wasn't scoring runs. I'm still going to play the same way I play, but not trying to go after every ball - I've got 50 overs, not 20. Now I reckon I'm mature enough that I can try to last
50 overs".
Warner is competing with Shane http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Watson-c96326, Tim Paine and Brad Haddin for the opening position and he wants to open for Australia in coming ODI World cup. Luckily Warner got the chance in the ODI team for the series against India as selectors decided to give
Shane Watson some rest before The Ashes series.
Now Warner has the chance to prove himself in India and become part of Australia’s ODI squad for the upcoming World Cup, which will also held in India this coming year.
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