‘All yours now is a champion’ – David Warner credits Jake Fraser-McGurk with outstanding performances

Warner has become a mentor to Fraser-McGurk and the pair spent a lot of time together in the IPL, where they played for the Delhi Capitals, and more recently in the T20 World Cup when Fraser-McGurk joined as a tour guide.

Warner’s international career came to an end with Australia’s exit from the Super Eight, meaning a new era at the top of the order approaches in both forms of limited overs.

“All yours is now a champion,” Warner captioned an Instagram Stories post on Wednesday in which he and Fraser-McGurk shared a drink.

Speaking to Australian reporters after the team’s exit was confirmed, Warner endorsed Fraser-McGurk’s credentials as an opener in T20s and ODIs.

“Every time I put something in I become a picker [but] I think he definitely has the ability to do that,” said Warner News Corp again cricket.com.au.

“He can lock it. And a little like me, you [have to learn] how to play…50 over cricket. That’s one thing I learned from Twenty20. I was dropped after seven matches because I didn’t really understand how to play one-day cricket.

“So from a one-day perspective if he learns that and understands that he will have a great career, especially batting in Australia. The best wickets in the world.”

Fraser-McGurk, who played two ODIs against the West Indies in February, scored 51 runs from 23 balls in two innings, and earlier in the season he set a record of 29 balls in one day in the Marsh Cup, possibly. included in the September tour of Scotland and England as Australia begin to look to the future.

However, Fraser-McGurk himself has played down the prospect of succeeding Warner as the red-ball opener after receiving a test at the top of the South Australian order in the Sheffield Shield that did not suit him. He made 19 runs in the opening four innings as at the beginning of the season he scored his first first class century at number 6.

“Last year when I was given the chance to open the batting in Shield cricket, it wasn’t me. Had Xavier Bartlett bowled the outsiders on the green at Adelaide Oval…it was abuse. I hope I don’t do that again, it’s one thing I can do. We can’t do it,” he says like this Unplayable Podcast.

Warner acknowledged the competing demands that would come from Fraser-McGurk in the franchise area but was motivated by his desire to pursue first-class cricket.

“Will he play Test cricket? I think he will have to have a year off in the next 12-18 months to prove himself,” Warner said. “I think we all had to score to get your name up there [to] confirm that.

“I hope when it comes to Shield cricket this year, he will stick to that. There will be a lot of money thrown at him in these Twenty20 leagues and it’s all up to him and his management to keep him focused and in line with what he wants to do. But I hope he thinks so.