Warner must break Aswin spell if Aussies are to stop march of improving Indians
The Cricket Paper|March 10,2017

Adam Collins explains the improvements that the tourist will be looking at as the series in India hots up.

Adam Collins
Warner must break Aswin spell if Aussies are to stop march of improving Indians

You always have to assume the other guy is going to make the putt. Applying the spirit of that golfing truism to the all-consuming Border-Gavaskar series, Australia will know that India are only going to get better. The unknown? If they can, too.

After coming so close to wrapping up this series in straight sets, the challenge evolves into now identifying where Australia’s improvement can be found in order to go with the hosts as this tour gets longer and harder. Thankfully for them, there are some obvious places to start.

Firstly, David Warner. He has a problem and it goes by the name Ravichandran Ashwin. Nine times the world’s best tweaker has defeated the Australian opener, more than any other bowler in Warner’s 62-Test career. He was flummoxed by a beauty from over the wicket in the first innings at Bangalore, and trapped in front sweeping from around the wicket second time around.

The latter dismissal was instructive for Warner isn’t a sweeper. Not in the conventional sense in any case. It suggests that Ashwin, by now, is surely in his head. That the vice-captain averages 37.5 away from home, some 11 runs fewer than in Australia, won’t be lost on him either. In Asia, that number drops further, down to 32.6.

There are days when Warner begins an innings in his native land and you can safely predict within a quarter hour that he is going to tally a century or more. Quickly conquering this ongoing Ashwin issue, and whatever causes him to be more error-prone when away, is integral to restoring his imposing aura.

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