T20 World Cup: Never play to shut down critics, it was all about putting pressure on bowlers, says David Warner

T20 World Cup: David Warner said that he was only thinking of different ways putting pressure on the Sri Lankan bowlers on Thursday and was not concerned with answering critics as he scored his first T20 half century since April.

Australia opener David Warner said that he was never concerned with answering critics and was only looking to put the Sri Lankan bowlers under pressure. Warner scored 65 off 42 balls in what was his first T20 half century since April, shaking off a spate of poor form that led to him getting dropped from the SunRisers Hyderabad squad in this year's Indian Premier League.

Warner scored a duck and one run in Australia's two warm-up games before getting out for 14 runs against South Africa. His first boundary on Thursday came off Sri Lanka's mystery spinner Maheesh Theekshana and he said it was the same shot that cost him his wicket against Ravichandran Ashwin in Australia's first warm-up match against India.