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The veteran Australian opener David Warner has gone through a lean patch with the bat in the ongoing Ashes 2023. He has also struggled a lot in coping with the ‘Stuart Broad’ factor in the three matches played in the series so far. Warner has scored only 141 runs in the 6 innings of the 3 Tests with a very poor average of 23.5 including only one half-century in the second innings of the second Test at the Lord’s Test.
Meanwhile, former England opener Mark Butcher has come up with an alarming reality check for David Warner while talking about a ‘call on retirement’. Butcher discussed the struggles Warner has gone through in the current Ashes 2023 so far. Apart from that, he also felt that the Aussie opener is on a stage where he would have to decide, whether it would be him or someone else taking a decision on his retirement.
“I think Warner's issue is that he goes so hard at the ball,” Butcher began. Even if he does plays the line… imagine the ball is coming back in but because he's thrusting his hands at it so hard, it always carries. (With) Kumar (Sangakkara), one of the things that comes to my mind watching him bat was just how relaxed he was, and how much he allowed the ball to come to him therefore if there is that little bit of movement and you're not going towards it, you can actually just pull the bat on the inside or you just hold the line, and the ball goes past,” said Butcher in a segment with former Sri Lanka skipper Kumar Sangakkara on Sky Sports.
Here's what Mark Butcher said further for David Warner
“It's always quite presumptuous. There are very few people who get to call with their closing moment and they tend to be the absolute greats of the game. David Warner has been an excellent player but there comes a time when somebody else makes that call for you, I'm afraid. If Stuart Broad keeps knocking,” he added later with scared speculation for the veteran Southpaw in the near future.