David Warner smashed his maiden Test triple-ton against Pakistan in the ongoing Test in Adelaide. However, after the special knock, Warner recalled his interaction with Virender Sehwag during his early days in the Indian Premier League.

“When I met Virender Sehwag for Delhi in the IPL, he said to me I’ll be a better Test player than a T20 player,” he said. “I said you’re out of your mind, I’ve not played many first-class games. He always said they’ll have slips and gully, covers will be open, mid off and mid on will be up, you can get off to a flier and sit there all day and you’ll be picking them all off. It’s always stuck in my mind, it sounded very easy then,” he added.

Warner had a rather forgetful Ashes tour of England, where he managed only 95 runs from 10 innings. From that to here, he has bounced back brilliantly.

“You’re going to have people who doubt you, and through that whole series I said ‘I wasn’t out of form, I was out of runs’,” he said. “If I had my time again I would’ve not changed my guard, I wouldn’t have listened to some external noises, I would’ve backed myself more and bat where I have been here outside off, leaving the ball patiently, getting my bat and pad closer together and under my nose, and I am capable of that.”

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“I just think in England you can get caught up in playing too much in front, especially with the way I play, so I’ve had to regroup coming back from England, I’ve hit 3500-4000 balls leading into Brisbane and here as well I batted for a good two hours per session as well,” Warner added.

“It’s not by chance that I’ve actually tightened all that up, I’ve actually been working really hard on it in the nets, it’s one of those things where I’m a very confident person, whether I scored these runs or didn’t score these runs, I still hold my head up high and have that little smirk on my face that I always have,” David Warner concluded.