David Warner to miss Indore Test against India? Andrew McDonald says Australia are in no rush to make decision

Australia head coach Andrew McDonald provided an update on veteran batter David Warner but stressed that the management is in no rush to make the decision about whether he will play in the third Test against India.

The 36-year-old Warner suffered two injuries within minutes of each other during the second Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Delhi. A Mohammad Siraj ball hit Warner on his elbow, which resulted in a small hairline fracture before a concussion led to him being replaced by Matthew Renshaw.

After losing the second Test to India by six wickets, Australia head coach said that Warner is still nursing his injury and if he remains unavailable then Travis Head will open for Australia.

“He (Warner) is still sore at the moment,” McDonald said as quoted by cricket.com.au. “We are in no rush to make any decisions at this point in time around Davey … There is a bit of unknown there.”

McDonald further said that the management had a discussion before arriving in India that if the visitors lost an opener then Travis Head would come in.

“If Dave’s unavailable it would make perfect sense,” McDonald said on the idea of Head opening the innings.

“We did discuss before coming over here, that if we were to lose an opening batter that Trav would be one we’d look to put up there. We feel in the subcontinental conditions that he can get off to the fast starts which he showed.”

The Australia head coach also revealed that all-rounder Cameron Green faced “discomfort” while batting during the pre-tour camp. Green was declared 100 percent fit to feature in the third Test, which begins on March 1 in Indore.

“(Green) had a little setback batting in Bangalore (on a pre-tour camp) where he had some jarring and there was a fair bit of discomfort in that finger,” said McDonald.

“If he didn’t have that, I think the second Test was real(istic). But it probably just delayed it those few days. And we contemplated him as a concussion sub (for Warner) as well. We’re better off him loading up for the third Test match and in a good frame of mind.”