Warner's horror run continues at T20 World Cup

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David Warner's tally of outs has continued successful Australia's warm-up lucifer against New Zealand astatine the T20 World Cup successful Abu Dhabi.

Fresh disconnected a miserable IPL that saw him dropped by Sunrisers Hyderabad, Warner fell for a first-ball duck, arsenic Australia scraped location by 3 wickets with 1 shot to spare.

Kane Richardson's 3 wickets helped restrict New Zealand to 7-158, a people that looked similar it mightiness beryllium a winning people erstwhile Australia mislaid 3 wickets successful the abstraction of 5 balls successful the mediate overs.

It fell to Ashton Agar (23 disconnected 18 balls), Mitchell Starc (13 not retired disconnected 9) and Josh Inglis (8 disconnected 2) to get the Australians implicit line.

Inglis came to the crease successful the last implicit with Australia needing 8 runs to triumph disconnected 3 balls, and promptly scooped Kyle Jamieson for four, earlier edging different bound adjacent shot to decorativeness the match.

Playing his archetypal lucifer successful implicit 3 weeks, Warner's enactment was arsenic little arsenic it could be, edging the archetypal shot of the innings from Tim Southee to Martin Guptill astatine 2nd slip, who took a good drawback to his left.

What mightiness beryllium debated is the merits of charging the archetypal shot helium faced, having not had a competitory deed since September 25.

The lucifer did thing to quell concerns implicit Australia's middle-order batting, with neither Steve Smith (35 disconnected 30) nor Marcus Stoinis (28 disconnected 23) capable to enactment the crippled down the scope of New Zealand, arsenic the brace combined for a concern of 48 successful 40 balls.

It meant that erstwhile Smith, Matthew Wade and Stoinis fell successful speedy succession, a comfy 3-114 became 6-115 with little than 5 overs remaining.

With Glenn Maxwell, Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins rested, this was acold from a full-strength Australian side, but the show of Mitchell Marsh (24 disconnected 15) astatine fig 3 gave immoderate denotation of manager Justin Langer's plans for the tournament.

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