Veteran Australian opener David Warner has opined on scoring a fifty while battling a badly bruised hand on Day 1 of the second Ashes 2023 Test at Lord’s on Wednesday, June 28. He also added that his hand is a bit sore at the moment, adding that he might get it examined after the Test. However, despite the injury woes, Warner scored 66 off 88 balls.

Warner was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo: “It’s copped a battering the last two games, and in the nets, so it’s little bit sore at the moment, bit of a bruise but I’ll just see how we go after the game and I think we’ll examine it then. At the moment it’s quite tender. [I was] never in doubt, [but] it was quite sore. Initially it was more in the palm, I’ve got a hotspot where my thumb is and every time the ball hits the bat it just jars. Then today I got hit back in the knuckle which I think Mohammed Shami hit me [on] in that World Test Championship. I’ve had my hand in an ice bucket all afternoon, so we’ll play it by ear and assess it after the game.”

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However, David Warner got a life early in his innings when he was dropped by Ollie Pope on 20 after he hit a good delivery from Stuart Broad. And, then he scored  a defiant half-century, hitting eight fours and a six.

“I’ve felt in total control the last six to eight months with where my game is. I’m moving into the ball, my feet are moving, not just playing with my hands. I felt like I was onto something special in the World Test Championship final. And then last game, same thing. I feel like everything I’m putting in in the nets is actually coming out there in the middle. I’m excited by it and I think if I can keep getting myself in and keep that momentum going with my feet, a big one could be around the corner,” he concluded.