T20 World Cup 2024 – David Warner on Mark Wood and Jofra Archer: ‘They have to use their pace’

Australia will meet England for the first time in any format since last year’s tense Ashes series on Saturday [Sunday AEDT] in Barbados, in each team’s second match of the World Cup.

Both are among the fastest in the world at their best, but the slower pitches in the Caribbean are a far cry from their home conditions. Know that it is a T20 than a Test match, and Warner believes that this is a very different situation.

“You have to use their speed,” Warner said. “Test cricket they put different pitches, different balls. In Twenty20 cricket, you have to get half an edge in it and it can go. So there is a fair difference.”

Warner is also not expecting a consistent high-profile explosion as seen elsewhere in the world.

“I played a lot of cricket here,” said Warner. “You expect it to go down rather than bounce, unless it’s really short. The difference in bounce is what’s surprising. Because if they throw the ball eight feet. [from the stumps] long, your instinct is to pull. But you have to get back on track, support yourself, and if it bounces, so be it.”

“That’s right [the criticism] it doesn’t bother me. In one ear, out the other,” Warner said. “I don’t understand why it’s about me. There are 11 players in the team. I don’t get it.

“People think they should continue criticizing the way I play, I don’t know what it is. “