Sehwag Told Me I Would Be Better Test Batsman Than T20 Player: Warner After Smashing 300

Warner revealed that it was his IPL teammate Sehwag who was the first to tell him him that he would become a better Test batsman than a T20 player

Australia opener David Warner who became only the second batsmen to score a Test triple ton in a Day-Night Test,  in the ongoing Adelaide Test against Pakistan, opened up about a very interesting chat with Virender Sehwag which took place during the explosive openers stint for the now-defunct Delhi Daredevils in Indian Premier League (IPL). Speaking to the press after going past Sir Don Bradman's highest Test score (334) with an unbeaten 335 against Pakistan in the ongoing Day-night Test, David Warner said he did not envisage a future for him as a Test batsman while he came up the ranks into the Australia Team. However, Warner revealed that it was his IPL teammate Sehwag who was the first to tell him him that he would become a better Test batsman than a T20 batsman. Warner had built a reputation of sorts as an belligerent strokemaker in T20 cricket before he entered the Test arena. The big-hitting Australia batsman made his T20I debut in 2009 and had to wait 2 more years to get the Baggy Green. However, Warner has turned into one of the most lethal Test openers. The left-hander has scored 6612 Test runs at a staggering average of 46.23 for Australia. "When I met Virender Sehwag while playing for Delhi in the IPL, he sat down to me and said I will be a better Test player than a Twenty 20 player. I said 'you're out of your mind, I've not played many first-class games'," Warner said. "He always said 'they will have slips and gully, covers open, mid-wicket stay there. mid-off and mid-on will be up, you can get off to a flier and sit there all day and you'll be picking them all off'. "That's always stuck in my mind, it sounded very easy when we were discussing then."