David Warner scored 164 and 0 in the first two innings of the final Test series of his international Test career. His knock was decisive in Australia winning the game by 360 runs in the end.
David Warner’s 26th Test ton took Australia to a mammoth score of 487 in the first innings in the first Test in Perth. Pakistan were bowled out for 271 and 89 in their two respective innings and Australia won the match by a huge margin in the end.
In the Tets match, some Australian players reached their milestones. Nathan Lyon surpassed 500 Test wickets, Warner scored his 26th Test ton and Mitchell Marsh won the Player of the Match award for his contributions of 90 and 63 in the two innings. The all-rounder also got a wicket in the first innings. In the second innings, Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon picked up three each, Nathan Lyon picked up two and Pat Cummis, the captain, picked up one wicket.
Meanwhile, former Australian wicketkeeper Ian Healy made an interesting observation about David Warner, who played the 110th Test match of his career in Perth. According to him, he can play one more year of Test cricket given his current form and fitness.
David Warner won 164 Australia in Perth Test: Ian Healy
“That 160 he made in the first innings won us a Test in Perth. “It was not easy. I looked at it from afar on Thursday afternoon and said, ‘Oh dear, I wouldn’t want to be in Pakistan,’ they’ll feel a foot shorter than they did tomorrow afternoon not knowing how difficult the conditions were. “He said on SEN Desayuno.
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He further praised the left-hander for making difficult runs and felt that Pakistan’s bowlers missed the trick of bowling too short and not bowling him in the right areas when he was still new to the crease.
“I like the way Michael Slater made the batting conditions difficult in the second innings. “Mark Waugh could also make fun of the tough conditions, but David Warner was exceptional,” Healy added.
He further said that given his durability and fitness as a cricketer, he should consider playing at least one more year of Test cricket.
“What I love about it is its durability. I love the way he kept going and his feet moved. This is the part I agree with about Mitchell Johnson and what he said about: Why give a swan song? Your last three years have not been very good and now you are choosing how you can retire. But if he bats like that, it can be another year for me until he doesn’t want to play anymore,” Healy said.
David Warner was part of Australia’s World Cup winning team and contributed greatly to their success. The left-hander scored 535 runs in 11 matches at a strike rate of 108.30, including two hundreds and two fifties. He was then rested from the T20I series against India before the Pakistan Test series.
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