The Ashes: Former Australia batter David Warner ma...

David Warner has began the Ashes banter early by claiming that Joe Root might want to “take the surfboard off his entrance leg” if England are to win the urn abroad for the primary time since 2010/11.

Root is but to attain a Check hundred in Australia, with a better of 89 and a median of 35.68 throughout 14 Assessments within the nation.

The England batter lately eclipsed Australia legend Ricky Ponting because the second-highest run-scorer in Check cricket, leaving him behind solely India nice Sachin Tendulkar.

Warner thinks Root could also be vulnerable to falling lbw to Josh Hazlewood this winter, in a sequence that begins in Perth on November 21, telling the BBC: “The large anchor there’s Root, who’s but to attain 100 in Australia.

“Hazlewood tends to have his quantity rather a lot. He must take the surfboard off his entrance leg.”

Nonetheless, England seamer turned Sky Sports activities pundit Stuart Broad wrote on X that Hazlewood has solely dismissed Root lbw thrice.

Root has fallen 10 occasions in 18 Assessments to Hazlewood general, with Australia captain Pat Cummins having eliminated the Yorkshireman on 11 events.

Australia’s last Check sequence earlier than the Ashes was a 3-0 win within the West Indies, during which they skittled their hosts for 27, the second-lowest rating in Assessments, within the last sport.

However the vacationers’ batting appeared shaky at factors, one thing that may encourage England.

“All of it comes right down to the bowlers,” Warner stated. “If the English bowlers can put a dent within the Australia high order then they’ll come into the competition.”

Warner, who performed 112 Assessments for Australia between 2011 and 2024, scoring 8,786 runs and 26 tons of – will play for London Spirit in The Hundred this season.

Spirit face defending males’s champions Oval Invincibles on the opening day at Lord’s on Tuesday, with each match from the event, males’s and ladies’s, dwell on Sky Sports activities.