Warner

[The Swans Blog]

Career averages:

 

[Bradesmaen]

You lost the argument and you look like an idiot. Give up.

To you I lost the argument, because you are in the David Warner fanclub, with his new shirtless calendar ready to hang up on January 1.

 

[The Swans Blog]

To you I lost the argument, because you are in the David Warner fanclub, with his new shirtless calendar ready to hang up on January 1.

No I'm not, you clearly lost it to Topkent and looked like a bit of a toss trying to push your point across. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but what PhatBoy says isn't gospel, it isn't even accurate half the time.

I argue that Warner isn't some pleb, a plum, a shit campaigner that's useless overseas. Phatty is plucking at straws, applying shitty form over the last 12 months against his entire career, whilst simultaneously dismissing performances in SA, UAE and England as nothing but abnormalities.

We get it, he's not very good in India, or where conditions don't suit him, and he's probably not going to do well again unless he adjusts his temperament. For the sake of clarity, why don't you tell me who in the Australian team is actually good in India.

As much as Bradman was revered, I'd like to see how he would have done on the pitches they prepare.

 

[Bradesmaen]

No I'm not, you clearly lost it to Topkent and looked like a bit of a toss trying to push your point across. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but what PhatBoy says isn't gospel, it isn't even accurate half the time.

I argue that Warner isn't some pleb, a plum, a shit campaigner that's useless overseas. Phatty is plucking at straws, applying shitty form over the last 12 months against his entire career, whilst simultaneously dismissing performances in SA, UAE and England as nothing but abnormalities.

We get it, he's not very good in India and he's probably not going to do well again unless he adjusts his temperament. For the sake of clarity, why don't you tell me who in the Australian team is actually good in India.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, except me. I'm not allowed to say what I think because it contradicts what you think. Especially when I back it up with facts while you back it up with Trump-like lies. I'm going to bed, pretty sick of you campaigners insulting me for thinking different.

 

[PhatBoy]

No I'm not, you clearly lost it to Topkent and looked like a bit of a toss trying to push your point across. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but what PhatBoy says isn't gospel, it isn't even accurate half the time.

I argue that Warner isn't some pleb, a plum, a shit campaigner that's useless overseas. Phatty is plucking at straws, applying shitty form over the last 12 months against his entire career, whilst simultaneously dismissing performances in SA, UAE and England as nothing but abnormalities.

We get it, he's not very good in India and he's probably not going to do well again unless he adjusts his temperament. For the sake of clarity, why don't you tell me who in the Australian team is actually good in India.

They are abnormalities.

Actually not his England record. It's below 40 so it is normality.

An abnormality is something that goes against the majority/regular outcome.

With 5 of 7 over seas countries to host warner having witnessed him produce at he at mediocre results, his records in SA and UAE are, indeed, by any definition you want to try and drag up, abnormalities.

I didn't invent maths. I'm merely applying it

 

[roscreasl98]

They are abnormalities.

Actually not his England record. It's below 40 so it is normality.

An abnormality is something that goes against the majority/regular outcome.

With 5 of 7 over seas countries to host warner having witnessed him produce at he at mediocre results, his records in SA and UAE are, indeed, by any definition you want to try and drag up, abnormalities.

I didn't invent maths. I'm merely applying it

Every other country in the world would love him in their team.

 

[PhatBoy]

Every other country in the world would love him in their team.

I've never said otherwise.

Cook and Azhar Ali are the only 2 other openers that would be considered for any team on the planet. Sehwag was just as fallible as Warner in the wrong conditions but he was still a fantastic player.

 

[Carlos Danger]

Stats can't really paint the picture of warner. Theres no stat for making 100 when no other batter can hit it off the square. Likewise when you hit the ball straight up in the air when you're 20no on a road.
You have to take the Good with the bad.

What irks me about him is how easy his role in the team is. He is always allowed to play with freedom they even select the team around him, Roger's/ Renshaw to occupy the crease incase he gets out early.

If he plays a loose shot he lumps more pressure on the batters below him who currently have had enough pressure on them as it is.
But when he comes off its game breaking.

The next 2 series will almost define his career, can he score some runs against quality spin? And if we don't regain the ashes no one in that team will have much praise heaped on them

 

[The Swans Blog]

Thoughts on the overrated hack PhatBoy? Joins some elite company there with that century.

 

[PhatBoy]

Thoughts on the overrated hack PhatBoy? Joins some elite company there with that century.

Was that century on a dustbowl in Kolkata? Wow, that's interesting. I thought it was in his home country where I've fully acknowledged he's an elite player. Thanks for the enlightenment

 

[The Swans Blog]

Was that century on a dustbowl in Kolkata? Wow, that's interesting. I thought it was in his home country where I've fully acknowledged he's an elite player. Thanks for the enlightenment

Oh really? Like the first innings of 5 in Australia counts for nothing? We know, you secretly hate the Australians, especially Warner.

 

[greatwhiteshark]

Oh really? Like the first innings of 5 in Australia counts for nothing? We know, you secretly hate the Australians, especially Warner.

With all due respect we are 3-365 after day 1 of a cricket match, hardly a test match as the batsman cannot be tested in those conditions.
Great knock by warner, he doesn't prepare the pitch. He can only play on what is prepared. Hardly one of the all time great knocks though.

 

[The Swans Blog]

With all due respect we are 3-365 after day 1 of a cricket match, hardly a test match as the batsman cannot be tested in those conditions.
Great knock by warner, he doesn't prepare the pitch. He can only play on what is prepared. Hardly one of the all time great knocks though.

You'll have to quote me where I said it was an all time great knock. He's one of 5 players in test history to score a century in the first session of a match. That's an absurdly good record to have and a group to be apart of. He's hardly a great player, but it was a great knock.

 

[greatwhiteshark]

You'll have to quote me where I said it was an all time great knock. He's one of 5 players in test history to score a century in the first session of a match. That's an absurdly good record to have and a group to be apart of. He's hardly a great player, but it was a great knock.

Fair enough

 

[PhatBoy]

Oh really? Like the first innings of 5 in Australia counts for nothing? We know, you secretly hate the Australians, especially Warner.

Whoa, you got me.

No it wasn't me saying 'I openly despise Australia and want them to lose every game' that gave me away, nah not that. It was your brilliant f***in detective skills.

This knock will really straighten out that overseas record, like most home ground dead rubber hundreds.

Well played

 

[The Swans Blog]

Whoa, you got me.

No it wasn't me saying 'I openly despise Australia and want them to lose every game' that gave me away, nah not that. It was your brilliant f***in detective skills.

This knock will really straighten out that overseas record, like most home ground dead rubber hundreds.

Well played

there's that massive chip on your shoulder again.

 

[PhatBoy]

there's that massive chip on your shoulder again.

You mean the one you think you just discovered but that everyone else knew about the instant I first posted here and said 'I can't stand Australia?'

Nah well done mate

 

[Bradesmaen]

You'll have to quote me where I said it was an all time great knock. He's one of 5 players in test history to score a century in the first session of a match. That's an absurdly good record to have and a group to be apart of. He's hardly a great player, but it was a great knock.

Yeah but these days it means nothing.

 

[The Swans Blog]

Yeah but these days it means nothing.

Sure it doesn't, whatever. I'm sure if Smith came out and smashed it, you'd be creaming all over your keyboard. Or Renshaw or anyone else but Warner because he's just some T20 pleb.

 

[Bradesmaen]

Sure it doesn't, whatever. I'm sure if Smith came out and smashed it, you'd be creaming all over your keyboard. Or Renshaw or anyone else but Warner because he's just some T20 pleb.

Not really. It's a batsmans game now.

 

[Damon_3388]

If form and fitness and the eye allows, Warner could have another 5-6 years of Test cricket left. That's potentially another 10 Tests in India and another 5-10 in England. Throw in another 3-5 in each of South Africa, Sri Lanka, the West Indies and New Zealand in that time, and he's got plenty of opportunity to improve his overseas record. Obviously he has to actually take the opportunity, but his story is far from finished.

 

[Demosthenes]

He needs to bat with some intelligence if he is going to improve his record in foreign conditions (I don't really consider SA conditions 'foreign').

He has the ability, his knock at Bellerive in 2011 proves that, but I have been waiting 6 years in vain for him to replicate it.

 

[peternorth]

He is in good form.

Has dedicated the score to hughsey

Warner needed only 78 balls to peel off his 18th Test century – the fourth fastest ton by an Australian – reaching the milestone three minutes before the first break. That it came at the venue where his close friend Hughes was fatally struck added to the poignancy of the moment.

"Every time I walk out here we've got our little mate walking with us," Warner said. "It's always in the back of my mind when I walk out here that he's with me and I always think he's at the other end with me. Every time I score runs here or a hundred it's always for him."

 

[The Swans Blog]

You mean the one you think you just discovered but that everyone else knew about the instant I first posted here and said 'I can't stand Australia?'

Nah well done mate

Really don't know why you bother

 

[PhatBoy]

Really don't know why you bother

I could say the same about you.