Watching England score 444, it’s little disappointing: David Warner

In the absence of regular skipper Steve Smith, David Warner led the Australian to achieve a 3-1 unassailable lead in the 5-match ODI series. After winning the series, Warner lashed out at the pitches that have been laid in Sri Lanka.

He suggested that Sri Lankans probably like to play against spinners, but not against the faster bowlers and that’s the reason turning tracks have been laid. “Maybe they put a ‘bunsen burner’ (turning pitch) there for us to pick a (second) spinner,” Warner said. “You guys probably like playing against spinners and not against the quicks.”

Aaron Finch, who recorded the joint-fastest fifty for Australia in ODIs got them off to a flying start. “It’s about getting a good start in these conditions and make use of that new ball when we’re batting because otherwise, you see what happens when the ball gets old,” Warner said.

England recorded the highest team total in ODIs in the 3rd ODI match of the ongoing series against Pakistan and Warner said that it is quite disappointing to play in these ordinary wickets. “Sitting back and watching England score 444 (against Pakistan), then we come out here and busting our backsides and both teams scramble to 200,” Warner said. “It’s a little bit disappointing. It’s probably not ideal for people coming out here to watch that kind of cricket.”

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Aaron Finch frustrated with ordinary wickets:

Finch opined that apart from the pitch used for the first ODI, all others were ordinary ODI wickets. “It starts turning square. The first wicket was a nice wicket and they’ve reeled out some ordinary one-day wickets since then,” he said. “It can be quite frustrating as a batter when you look over and there’s a beautiful batting wicket two strips over that could have been a really entertaining game from a high-scoring point of view but they used the same one.”

“It’s their home conditions so they’re entitled to do that. But it was nice to win when you feel there was a lot of things working against you.” He said that said the Dambulla wicket “would have to be close” the worst pitch he had seen in international cricket. “This has been as hard (for batting) as I’ve seen it,” Finch concluded.