New Delhi: Australian opener David Warner is developing a counter strategy to keep off the danger that Ravichandran Ashwin has exerted over him. The left-hander's strategy to come up good against the offie is to attack him right-handed. Just in case you are thinking that the left-handed batsman will be changing his stance at the crease, then you are wrong.
Rolling away from the much-heated DRS controversy and the two back-to-back injury blows, the Aussies are getting all geared up to tackle the Men in Blues for their third Test encounter next week.
Australian opener David Warner is among them who is keeping himself busy chalking-out plans to play Ashwin's deliveries. Among his plans, the opener will be going for right-handed switch-hit shots.
Counting the Bengaluru Test where the Tamil Nadu lad got Warner's scalp in both innings, it's been a total of nine out of their 23 Test innings encounter that Ashwin has dismissed him. "Nine times it has been now. Credit to him that he has done it so many times while poor for me to misjudge it most of the times," said Warner to cricket.com.au.
In fact, in the practice nets, Warner plays right-handed strokes to master some of his innovative and unconventional shots, seen during the game. "Last Test I had indeed gone for a few reverse switch shots in which I succeeded, but then the only concern for me was the variable bounce in that pitch," said the 30-year-old. "If you miss that and switch hit you can still be given out lbw, but if you reverse sweep, you can't. So, you have to be careful."
"I know my mind. If I play one shot then he would change something and I know if he tries something I'm thinking in the back of my mind how am I going to score? That's credit to him," smiled Warner, " "He's a fantastic bowler, he's got a lot of wickets in his backyard and I have to respect that."
