David Warner has began the Ashes banter early by claiming that Joe Root might want to “take the surfboard off his front leg” if England are to win the urn abroad for the primary time since 2010/11.
Root is but to attain a Take a look at hundred in Australia, with a better of 89 and a mean of 35.68 throughout 14 Exams within the nation.
The England batter lately eclipsed Australia legend Ricky Ponting because the second-highest run-scorer in Take a look at cricket, leaving him behind solely India nice Sachin Tendulkar.
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Warner thinks Root could also be vulnerable to falling lbw to Josh Hazlewood this winter, in a collection that begins in Perth on November 21, telling the BBC: “The big anchor there is Root, who is yet to score a hundred in Australia.
“Hazlewood tends to have his quantity rather a lot. He must take the surfboard off his entrance leg.”
Nonetheless, England seamer turned Sky Sports activities pundit Stuart Broad wrote on X that Hazlewood has solely dismissed Root lbw 3 times.
Root has fallen 10 occasions in 18 Exams to Hazlewood total, with Australia captain Pat Cummins having eliminated the Yorkshireman on 11 events.
Australia’s remaining Take a look at collection earlier than the Ashes was a 3-0 win within the West Indies, by which they skittled their hosts for 27, the second-lowest rating in Exams, within the remaining sport.
However the vacationers’ batting regarded shaky at factors, one thing that may encourage England.
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“It all comes down to the bowlers,” Warner mentioned. “If the English bowlers can put a dent in the Australia top order then they will come into the contest.”
Warner, who performed 112 Exams for Australia between 2011 and 2024, scoring 8,786 runs and 26 tons of – will play for London Spirit in The Hundred this season.
Spirit face defending males’s champions Oval Invincibles on the opening day at Lord’s on Tuesday, with each match from the event, males’s and girls’s, reside on Sky Sports activities.
