Australia opener David Warner has admitted that he cannot play the audacious shots Matthew Wade produced in the T20 World Cup semifinal against Pakistan. Wade clobbered three back-to-back sixes off Shaheen Afridi to stun favourites Pakistan and guide the Aussies to the final.
Wade, who was not in the best of form before that game, produced some outrageous shots off the left-arm pacer during his 17-ball 41 runs knock. Speaking on the same, David Warner candidly admitted that he couldn’t have played the kind of strokes that his fellow teammate did against Afridi.
Speaking on chat show Backstage with Boria, the Aussie opener confessed:
“In those situations, I can’t play the shot that he plays. If I was out there, I would never have hit that six because I can’t play that shot. Having a guy like him to come in like he did…”
“Specifically in Australia, they wrote Matthew Wade and Marcus Stoinis off. They said they can’t win games for Australia. Yes, they can. They won the biggest game for us,” Warner added.
Adding further, David Warner stressed that the experience of Matthew Wade made the difference between the Aussie and young Pakistan speedster Shaheen Afridi.
“The one thing that stood out for us was, and this is no disrespect to Shaheen, experience plays a big role in big games. Matthew Wade, he will always ramp. Shaheen Afridi’s best delivery is going to be a yorker. If he misses his yorker, and if Wade hits him behind (the wickets), even with a fielder back, it’s going to go for six because he is bowling at 150 kph. If you don’t execute it properly, you are going to drop it short. That’s exactly what he did,” David Warner added.
Australia continued that brilliant run in the final as well winning the T20 World Cup for the first time ever beating New Zealand in the title decider.
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