Warner Fires Ashes Jibe At England's Root

David Warner says Joe Root will request to "take nan surfboard disconnected his beforehand leg" if he and England are to win successful Australia this winter.

Warner, 38, is successful England for a stint pinch London Spirit successful The Hundred and while he is looking guardant to calling Lord's location for a month, he could not defy a gentle excavation astatine erstwhile Ashes rivals.

England look Australia successful nan Ashes from precocious November, erstwhile they will effort to triumph backmost nan urn for nan first clip successful 10 years.

"The large anchor location is Rooty [England batter Joe Root], who is yet to people a 100 successful Australia," Warner told BBC Sport.

"Josh Hazlewood tends to person his number rather a lot. He will person to return nan surfboard disconnected his beforehand leg."

Warner, who retired from world cricket past year, is group to make his Hundred debut successful nan tourney opener against Oval Invincibles connected Tuesday.

He could look Root's Trent Rockets astatine Lord's connected 14 August.

Root is nan number 1 Test batter successful nan world and important to England's hopes of winning nan Ashes but has ne'er scored a period successful Australia.

He has been dismissed 10 times successful 18 Tests by Australia seamer Hazlewood - 1 less than nan 11 times he has been dismissed by Australia skipper Pat Cummins and India bowler Jasprit Bumrah.

"It each comes down to nan bowlers," Warner said.

"If nan English bowlers tin put a dent successful nan Australia apical bid past they will travel into nan contest."

Warner could besides look different erstwhile Ashes rival successful The Hundred this twelvemonth successful seasoned bowler James Anderson. Anderson was a precocious prime for Manchester Originals, who nan Spirit play connected 11 August.

Asked astir nan imaginable of facing England's grounds wicket-taker again, Warner said: "They are 2025 achromatic cricket balls not 2018 reddish Dukes.

"It is going to beryllium a spot different."

England asked for nan 2018 batch of Dukes balls to beryllium utilized for nan 2019 Ashes because they expected them to move much for Anderson and nan hosts' different seamers.

Anderson was injured 4 overs into nan bid which was drawn 2-2, yet Warner has not forgotten.

"He astir apt won't beryllium capable to seam it astir corners for illustration they usually do," Warner said.

When Warner plays connected Tuesday it will beryllium nan first clip he has taken to nan section connected English ungraded since nan last time of nan Ashes successful 2023.

That day, earlier nan shot changes, bail swaps and Stuart Broad's finale, Warner was applauded disconnected by nan crowd astatine The Oval, contempt his troubled history pinch nan England-supporting public.

"I was touched by that," Warner said.

"It is simply a in installments to nan supporters of cricket successful England, who emotion nan game.

"We person ever had our challenges and battles arsenic nations but what English supporters do is admit players who person played for a agelong time. That did mean a lot."

The Spirit reached nan Hundred eliminator 2022 but person vanished seventh aliases eighth successful nan tournament's different 3 seasons.

This twelvemonth Warner will beryllium reunited pinch different Australian, nan erstwhile coach and opener Justin Langer who has replaced Trevor Bayliss arsenic coach.

"I cognize Spirit haven't gone excessively good successful nan past fewer years," Warner said.

"For myself to bring immoderate power and strength to nan group and task that connected nan section would beryllium awesome.

"It is astir nan fans and nan young kids that are coming retired to spot us, not astir nan subordinate and whether location has been a spot of history aliases not.

"It is astir supporting nan game, making judge we are nan ones putting bums connected seats and are location for nan correct reasons."