Australian opener David Warner was back in his business as he regained his batting form in a match against Sri Lanka.

On Thursday, Australia beat Sri Lanka by seven wickets as Warner led the charge with his elegant 65 off 42 balls to announce before the world that he is not done yet.

David Warner leads Australia’s chase against Sri Lanka

Warner smashed spin bowler Maheesh Theekshana for a boundary of a gritty reverse-sweep ball, his firts of the 10 big hits of the day.

The swashbuckling opener took 31 balls to reach his 19th T20 International half-century and kept firing from one end even though skipper Aaron Finch and Glenn Maxwell were dismissed by Wanindu Hasaranga.

Warner couln’t finish the game for his team as he holed out to Bhanuka Rajapaksa off Dasun Shanaka’s bowling.

However, Steve Smith and Marcus Stoinis ensured that Australia chased the target with ease and spared three overs and seven wickets in the game.

Earlier Sri Lanka batted brilliantly to post 154/6, which although seemed like they were 15-20 runs short after how they started.

It was Australian bowlers who kept the pressure by taking regular wickets with leg-spinner Adam Zampa bowled a stunning spell of 2/12 from his four-over spell.

David Warner tries to imitate Cristiano Ronaldo

After the match, David Warner had the funniest moment of the tournament so far. While attending the post-match press conference, the Australian opener tried to take off the Coca Cola bottles and asked, “Can I remove this?”.

Later when he was told to keep it back, Warner, in a cheeky manner, said, ” If it is good for Cristiano( Ronaldo) it’s good enough for me.”

This year in the Euro Cup 2020, Portugal football team captain Ronaldo had removed the bottles of Coca-Cola from one of his press conferences and said he would prefer water.

However, the gesture from the star footballer had an adverse effect on the beverage firm as $4 billion were wiped off from its market value and its shares dropped 1.6 per cent.

Virat Kohli announced that they will be going with the same eleven for the third Test – only the fourth time in 64 Tests Kohli has played unchanged XIs in successive Tests – which won them the second match at Lord’s.

We thought about getting Ashwin in Virat Kohli

Ashwin, the second-ranked ICC Test bowler, and fourth-ranked all-rounder is yet to feature in the series, and his wait extends for another game, as the management decided to go again for a four-pronged pace attack plus the services of Ravindra Jadeja as the all-rounder who bowls spin.

This, despite the fact that dry weather and turn in the second half of the game predicted. India, in not for a follow-on, would be bowling fourth on the pitch, and hence Ashwin’s proven efficacy on drier surfaces would have been handy.

Explaining his decision to leave out the champion off-spinner for the third Test, Virat Kohli, at the toss, said they initially pondered over including Ashwin in the eleven, but then decided against it and went with an extra pacer to create similar pressure as they had done in the previous two Tests. He believes a seamer would be more effective in English conditions than a spinner.

Kohli also admitted that the conditions will at some point assist the spinners and he would have to rely on Jadeja to bowl more overs than he had done in the first two Tests.

“We thought about getting Ashwin in, and the pressure of the extra seamer in these conditions is crucial. Jadeja will bowl a lot more overs because the conditions are suited to him. You can lay down markers and a culture, but it’s upto the boys to take it up and win from pressure situations. It’s all about handling pressure at the highest level,” the Indian skipper said at the toss.

Virat Kohli decided to bat first. Joe Root said he didn’t mind batting second as he felt the pitch will get better for batting as the game progresses. The English skipper made a couple of changes: Craig Overton comes in for the injured Mark Wood, and Dawid Malan returns to the Test eleven after three years replacing Dom Sibley.

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