When David Warner, batting right-handed, fell lbw trying to switch to his natural side, it was emblematic of the lows Australia has sunk to as the losses mount ahead of the World Cup.
David Warner uncharacteristically faces up right-handed, and is dismissed lbw while falling off his feet.Even then, the margin was reduced by a combination of rain and a late-order stand of 77 between Sean Abbott and Josh Hazlewood. India’s tally of 399 was their biggest ever against Australia, a brutish lesson in the skills of limited overs batting for the tourists’ youthful bowling attack.
But the sight of Warner lining up right-handed for four balls to Ravichandran Ashwin – who will only make India’s World Cup squad if Axar Patel is ruled out – only added to an increasingly dispiriting pattern of moments.“I think if Davey’s just going to sit there and bat left-handed, Ashwin is not going to miss his length too often,” Abbott said. “With the ball spinning so much, he’s got the one that goes the other way, the straighter one, and all the variations along with that.
Nevertheless, Australia’s brittle performance with the bat hardly inspired confidence. This was the fifth consecutive game in which all 10 wickets were given up rather too easily. To be 8-140 on a surface where India had fallen a run short of 400 continued a sequence begun against the Proteas. Green was at his best in the latter stages of the tour of India in March, sculpting a fine first Test century in Ahmedabad. But after staying on for the IPL and then almost immediately having to go to England, he has drifted through a series of underwhelming displays, having also been interrupted by concussion in South Africa.
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