I definitely needed a kick up the bum: David Warner

David Warner has said he needed to be dropped from the Australian Test squad following his pub brawl with Joe Root during which the Aussie landed a punch on the Englishman.

David Warner has said he needed to be dropped from the Australian Test squad following his pub brawl with Joe Root during which the Aussie landed a punch on the Englishman.

Warner’s ban over the incident that took place in a Birmingham pub during the Champions Trophy cost him his place in the first two Tests of the Ashes at Trent Bridge and Lord’s.

But he is back in contention for a recall in the third Test at Old Trafford after his 193 during the ongoing unofficial Test match against South Africa A in Pretoria.

“Sitting on the sidelines and copping that punishment and not being selected was a thing that I needed,” Warner was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo.

“I definitely needed a kick up the bum. It was my own fault the incident that happened. My job was then to support our players, support the rest of the group and do everything I could to help them prepare for the games. I did that and I know the other guys on the tour did the same thing. We’ve all been working very hard,” he added from South Africa.

Warner impressed by surviving for more than five hours at the crease here, against a South Africa A attack boasting the promising pace pairing of Kyle Abbott and Marchant de Lange.