It seems to be curtains for David Warner for the first Test against India, slated to begin on December 17 in the eyes of Australian head coach Justin Langer. Langer said he is not ‘holding his breath’ on the chances of Warner’s recovery in time to make it in the playing XI of the pink-ball Test. Warner injured his groin while trying to stop an off-drive off Shikhar Dhawan in the second ODI at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Sunday.
"He's strained his abductor in his groins and they tell me it's a very painful injury. It looked like he got shot by a gun. He was in incredible pain in the changerooms after,” Langer told SEN's Sportsday WA yesterday.
However, Langer saw a positive out of the injury as the left-hander will get an opportunity to take some time off after coming under pressure over the selection of his partner to open the innings for Australia in the red and pink ball.
Warner’s absence will make the case clear and simpler for the highly-rated prodigy Will Pucovski who has notched truckloads of runs in the recently-finished round 1 of the Sheffield Shield. There was a toss-up between him and Joe Burs who had opened the innings with Warner in the last summer but Pucovski’s hot streak of runs put him on the brink of exclusion from the team as many former players were weighing the options of trying the young man when he is in middle of his best form with the bat.
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