Perth: David Warner shattered a slew of records during his epic knock of 178 on Wednesday — helping Australia register a victory by biggest margin of runs in World Cup when they trounced Afghanistan by 275 runs.
Answering a query from Gulf News on whether he was disappointed he could not reach 200 after batting comfortably, Warner said: “I’m not disappointed at all. I went out there to try and score some runs. It was good to get a great total on the board and obviously the bowlers doing their job at the end there.”
When asked if the Afghan bowlers lost their composure when he attacked the bowling, Warner said: “I thought the way they came back, not sure what the guy’s name is, but he got up to about 140 to 145 clicks and he was bowling yorkers, it surprised me a little bit. But yeah, I thought he bowled pretty well there towards the end, that power play when he executed a couple yorkers.
“Look we’re just on our day; we were pretty good today.”
Warner was so aggressive that one of the sixes hit the shoulder of a young boy sitting on in the stands and Warner gifted his gloves after the match for unintentionally causing the boy pain. “I didn’t realise until I saw it on the big screen. I gave him a pair of gloves and signed them and I just had a little quick chat there with him and his father, and he’s a bit better now. He had a little bit of a bandage on him, but I hope he gets well.”
To a query whether he plans to use this innings as a platform for coming matches, Warner said: “Next will be another game. Obviously got to get yourself back in again. Back at the SCG, I like playing there. For all of us, we’ve got to take as much out of this game as possible. It’s always good to get out in the middle. I thought the practice wickets were quite challenging the other day, so it’s good to get out in the middle there and score some runs back at home and playing against Sri Lanka.”
Warner is delighted that his teammates have also got among runs. “Great to see other boys get among the runs. Reminded us of the Ashes days. It was quite humid. Their second spells were very good. They executed the yorkers really well. The boys were surprised at how quick that fella [Dawalat Zadran] bowled,” he said, admitting he had trouble pronouncing the name of the Afghanistan bowler.
