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<p>Good analogy although the Fijians can't look back on how amazing they used to be at 15s.</p>
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<p>A couple of years back I would have thought D Warner would be well up the list of T20 batsmen but I guess it shows that he has reigned in his natural instincts somewhat and become such a dominant test player instead.</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/1008695.html'>http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/1008695.html</a></p>
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<p>Cricinfo did a piece on Warner on Friday highlighting that in the IPL he is so much better than the others its just not funny... - (lots of interesting tables & shit ion the actual article, but here's the gist)</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">After a lacklustre World T20 when he batted at Nos. 3 and 4 for Australia and scored all of 38 runs in four innings, David Warner is back at where he's done the best in T20s - opening. Warner has scored 386 runs in seven innings in this IPL at average of 77.20 and a strike rate of 168.55. Among openers who have played more than one innings in this season, KL Rahul's strike rate of 158.33 comes the closest. Warner's strike rate is also the best for any batsman with at least 150 runs in this IPL. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Admittedly, it has helped to open in this IPL - 2016 has already seen 45 fifty-plus scores by openers in 32 matches, which is just three such scores fewer than what they managed in the whole series last year. Openers' average of 36.83 in 2016 is also the highest in any IPL season. But even among openers, Warner has stood out in the manner he has dominated the bowlers. He has attacked them from the word go and hasn't allowed them to bowl tight lines. In the first 15 balls of his innings in this IPL, Warner has struck at a rate of 174.72, which is higher than any of the other big-hitting batsmen in this series. His balls-per-boundary ratio of 3.6 is also the best among these batsmen. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Warner has also had to shoulder the responsibilities of a team that is clearly one of the weaker batting units in this IPL. While most other teams have had a strong middle order to fall back upon, Sunrisers Hyderabad haven't had that luxury, making Warner's contribution with the bat even more valuable. While Warner has averaged 77.20 in this IPL, the other Sunrisers batsmen have collectively averaged 21.58. Till Sunrisers' seventh game, Warner scored 386 runs out of the 958 that the team's top-seven batsmen have made, making his contribution of 40.29% to the top-order runs the highest for any batsman.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Warner's IPL success hasn't been limited to this season alone. <strong><em>He has been one of the most successful batsmen in IPL's history.</em></strong> In addition to being one of the top run-getters in this competition, he has notched up 30 fifty-plus scores, which equal the most any batsman has hit. Rohit and Gambhir have also hit 30 fifty-plus scores but they have taken 133 and 125 innings, respectively, to Warner's 90 innings (though to be fair it needs to be said that almost three-fourths of Rohit's innings in the IPL have been at No. 4 or lower). Warner's conversion rate of a fifty every three innings is the second best for any batsman with at least five fifty-plus scores in the IPL.</span></span></p>
