The flat decks on offer during the ongoing IPL might have made the role of an anchor batter irrelevant to an extent but Delhi Capitals opener David Warner says such players will play a key role during the World T20 in the Caribbean, where slow turners will test all the batters.
Indiaâs Virat Kohli and KL Rahul are such players with old school approach where they still build an innings before going hammer and tongs but the likes of Travis Head, Heinrich Klaasen, Jos Buttler and Jake-Fraser McGurk have been simply unstoppable in their start-to-finish mayhem.
Asked if batting template in IPL can be replicated in the World T20, Warner replied in a negative.
âThey (pitches in West Indies) can be slower and theyâre gonna turn a bit. I donât think theyâre going to be as compact as they are here. You know, Iâve played a lot of cricket over there. Iâve played in the CPL. The wickets tend to get a little bit lower and slower,” Warner said while replying to a query.
âEven when we played there in 2010 World Cup, the pitches there werenât high scoring. Thatâs when you did need an anchor. Someone like Mike Hussey came out and scored runs for us. He had to come and sort of knock it around,” Warner said while recalling the 2010 edition where Australia finished runners-up.