David Warner smashed his maiden Test triple-ton against Pakistan in the ongoing Test in Adelaide. However, Australia captain Tim Paine declared when David Warner was unbeaten on 335 and having a great chance of going past Brian Lara’s record Test score of 400. Warner, however, said the record was never in his mind.
“I don’t think so at all. We really looked at the weather that’s around tomorrow, we wanted to give ourselves a lot of time,” David Warner said.
“If we could have the amount of overs we did tonight and try to get a couple of wickets, we’ve managed to get six wickets down, if there is a bit of rain about tomorrow, the bowlers get a good rest, only have to come out and try to get 14 wickets in the last two days, so it wasn’t a thing in our mind to go out there and try to get that record or anything. It was more about putting our team in a great position to win the Test,” he told.
Warner further revealed that Paine extended Australia’s innings to give him time to surpass Don Bradman’s 334, the Australian record which was broken on Saturday.
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“The first person I asked was Smithy when I was out there batting. I said how many overs do you reckon we’ll have at them tonight, and it was literally that perfect amount. Then I came in, I think at that break, and I said ‘when are we declaring’, and they said ‘5.40pm’ and I said ‘ok’,” he expressed.
“I kept on asking when we were out there, we got to five, then ten past five, and I was making sure that was still the message and it was. Until I think that last over before, it just ticked over and Painey wanted me to try and get past that 334 mark,” he added.
“To achieve passing Sir Donald Bradman’s highest Test score, you look at it as a kid growing up and thinking, who is ever going to beat that in general. Then Brian Lara gets 400, Matthew Hayden gets 380, Tubby equalled Bradman against Pakistan, then Michael Clarke might have passed it but he declared,” he shared.
“It’s in the back of your mind, but you never think you are ever going to get yourself definitely. But when you get an opportunity like that, you want to try your best to see how good you are against the greatest we’ve ever had,” he concluded.
