OPINION: Are people dismissing David Warner's brilliance simply because they don't like him?
But nor does this disparity in performance in varying conditions justify the kind of invective Warner's batting continues to incite.
Yet in Adelaide, as a century became a double century became a triple, assessments of Warner's accomplishment lurched reflexively from the purely analytical to the downright pejorative. "Flat-track bully" is one term commonly employed to diminish Warner's incredible, and now historic, feats of technical excellence, controlled aggression, physical stamina and, in the latter stages of his career particularly, superior concentration.
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