Are Test cricket’s trials grinding Warner down?

Alongside a small, appreciative and anything but hostile gathering in Perth, David Warner’s early drag onto the stumps compelled him to spend much of the opening day of the Test summer as a spectator.

Before this match, Warner’s opening partner Usman Khawaja acknowledged the fact that Test cricket does have a cumulative, grinding effect on players the more they play without a break – noting and joking that despite making his debut before Warner, he had played roughly half as many matches. “It has left me [fresher]. To some extent there is a grind of Test cricket and he’s played 100 Test matches and countless one-dayers and he’s been on the grind for a long time, where I’ve been out of the grind for a little bit.

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