Ricky Ponting on David Warner: I think he will make some runs

Former Australian skipper Ricky Ponting believes that struggling opener David Warner has shown hints of his best form during the ICC World Test Championship final against India and in the first innings of the Ashes Test against England and he will make some runs reported ICC on SundayThe pressure is building on Warner and his place in the Test team is under scrutiny due to his recent form He fell to Stuart Broad for just nine runs at Edgbaston making it his 15th dismissal against the veteran English pacerAgainst Broad in Tests Warner has scored 397 runs in 734 balls at a subpar average of 2646 He has been dismissed 15 times by the bowlerThe statistics only read worse in Englands seam and swingfriendly conditions Broad has put Warner on a leash at home with the latter scoring only 158 runs in 329 balls at a poor average of 1755 He has dismissed Warner nine times in EnglandIn 15 Tests so far in England Warner has scored 704 runs at an average of 2514 He has scored seven fifties in 28 innings with best score of 85In 2023 he has just scored 89 runs in five Tests across seven innings at an average of 1271 with best score of 43 Last year he scored 571 runs in 11 Tests at an average of over 30 with one century and two fifties in 20 innings and best score of 200With these numbers pressure will build on Warner in case he fails in the second innings as well But Ponting feels that the first innings at Edgbaston and in WTC final suggest that he is close to getting back to scoring runs like he used toI thought he looked really good in the first innings of the WTC Final the 40odd he made there he played really well Ponting said on latest episode of The ICC ReviewAnd even though he made nine in the first innings here the way he actually started his innings was the best I have seen him start in two years of Test cricket So it is still there I think the fact that he was not able to score as freely as he would have wanted at the start of that innings played a part in him playing the shot that he didBut there is no doubt the second innings is an important one for him not just for his careers sake but it is going to be a big innings as far as this game and this series goes If he starts the same way that he started in the first innings then I think he will make some runs concluded the batting greatComing to the match England currently has a lead over Australia in the test Their second innings is in progress At the end of rainaffected day three they were at 282 with Joe Root and Ollie Pope at the creaseIn the first innings Australia was bundled out for 386 and they trailed England by seven runs who had scored 393 in their first innings after electing to batAustralia was once at 673 after David Warner 9 Marnus Labuschagne 0 and Steve Smith 16 were dismissed quickly Then knocks from Khawaja 141 Alex Carey 66 Travis Head 50 and skipper Pat Cummins 38 carried the Aussies to a big score though not big enough to secure a leadOllie Robinson 355 and Stuart Broad 368 were the pick of the bowlers for England Moeen Ali picked two scalps while skipper Ben Stokes and James Anderson got one eachEngland declared their first innings at 3938 after electing to bat first A century from Root 118 in 152 balls with seven fours and four sixes fifties from Jonny Bairstow 78 in 78 balls with 12 fours and Zak Crawley 61 in 73 balls with seven fours powered England to a huge scoreNathan Lyon 4149 was the pick of the bowlers for the Aussies Josh Hazlewood picked up two wickets while Scott Boland and Cameron Green got a wicket eachThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever