Ashes 2017/18: 4th Test, Day 1, 5 things we learnt from the day

#5 David Warner is a beast

David Warner bulldozed his way to a fabulous hundred

David Warner was upbeat the moment he walked out to the middle on Day 1 of the fourth Test. He ploughed Stuart Broad down the ground in the fourth over with a defensive push that spoke volumes about the form he is in. Soon he was hammering away the English bowlers while Cameron Bancroft held up at the other end.

By lunch, Warner had raced into the eighties at a strike rate close to 90 and Joe Root was starting to run out of ideas. The afternoon sun beating down on the Melbourne Cricket Ground was thought to aid Warner's stroke-making and though he got a tad slower and was reprieved by Curran's no-ball, he completed his 21st Test hundred before edging Anderson behind on 105 close to tea.