David Warner has recently announced that next year he will play his last test match thus bringing an end to a glittering career in test cricket where till now he has played in over 100 test matches for Australia and he is one of those rare Australia batters who have made a triple century in test cricket. David Warner is a batter who was the perfect opener in test cricket for Australia after Matthew Hayden. He is also an attacking batter and he can make quick hundreds.
David Warner till now has played in 103 Test Matches for Australia and in those matches he has made a total of 8158 Test runs at an average of 45.58 and he has scored 34 Half centuries and 25 Test Hundreds and 3 double hundreds as well as a triple hundred. David Warner will be a key player for Australia in the WTC Final and he would want to win the match for Australia.
Let’s look at the Top 5 Best Batting Performances of David Warner in Test Cricket:
1) 335* vs Pakistan (2019)
This is the second highest test score by an Australian batter in test cricket as he went past 334 made by the great Don Bradman. This innings was like an ODI innings in a test match because the way he was playing it was looking like there was no challenge to him and he was scoring runs at will and no bowler had any answer for him. He played for 411 balls in this innings and he made a historic 335* in which he smashed 39 fours and 1 six meaning a total of 162 runs in boundaries meaning he ran a lot in this innings and still he had a strike rate of over 80 which is truly incredible. It was one of the greatest test innings of the last 25 years.
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2) 253 vs New Zealand (2015)
This was the first double hundred of his career in test cricket and what a brutal innings it was. The opponents were New Zealand and it was at Perth and the bowling attack was good yet he made it look like so easy. He only took 286 balls to make 253 runs which is absolutely amazing and he hit 24 fours and 2 sixes in this innings meaning a total of 108 runs in boundaries which means he took a lot of ones and twos in this incredible innings ahd his strike rate was 88.46. New Zealand were blown away and this innings took him to a new level in test cricket.
3) 200 vs South Africa (2022)
This is another double hundred which he made vs South Africa last year and yet again it was a fast innings and this innings was played at MCG last year and this was the last double hundred in his career so far. In this innings he batted for 255 balls and he was at his destructive best as he hit 16 fours and 2 sixes in this innings meaning a total of 76 runs in boundaries and to have a strike rate of over 78 and running so much is a sign of a true champion. Australia won the match by an innings and 182 runs.
4) 180 vs India (2012)
This was the second test century by David Warner and in this innings he was playing like it was a T20I match and in this innings he absolutely decimated the Indian bowling attack to all parts and in just 159 balls he made a brilliant 180 and in this innings he smashed 20 fours and 5 sixes meaning a total of 110 runs in boundaries and he had a mind boggling Strike Rate of 113.21 which was sensational and much better than many ODI Innings played at the time. Australia won this match by an innings and 37 runs.
5) 145 vs South Africa (2014)
This is one of the best Overseas batting performances in test cricket in the last decade and David Warner hit centuries in both the innings of this test match against South Africa in 2014 at Cape Town. In this list the second innings knock which he played will be mentioned because to hit that kind of a century in such difficult conditions was simply extraordinary. David Warner hit 145 from just 156 balls and in this match winning innings he hit 13 fours and 4 sixes in this innings meaning a total of 76 runs in boundaries and he had a strike rate of 93 in this innings and Australia won the match by 245 runs.
