It’s been a pretty up-and-down World Cup for David Warner. Australia’s dynamic opening batsman lies in the upper half of the run-scorers’ chart, having scored 243 runs in four games to date, but 178 of them came in one hit alone – against Afghanistan at the WACA ground in Perth when he shared an Australian record 260 for the second wicket with Steven Smith.
“The team to beat would probably have to be New Zealand,” said Warner on Thursday (March 12) when asked for which he thought was the World Cup’s best team. “But India have been playing fantastic cricket at the moment as well. I think with the team that we have got and the balance that we have got, we showed it the other night with the bat, what can happen. We got a little bit nervous there towards the end with the bowling, but the boys got the job done.”
Warner spoke quite freely of nerves in the camp, both in that tall-scoring win against Sri Lanka in Sydney, and at Eden Park in Auckland when Australia were shot out for 151 by New Zealand. “We were a bit nervous probably towards the end the other game against Sri Lanka, but we got the job done,” he reiterated. “The game that we lost to New Zealand, there was a sense of nerves from all the players. But we have great balance at the moment.”
