: He shed tears when the Australian national anthem was being played in the morning.
David Warner remembered Phillip Hughes. The opener said at the conclusion of the day’s play, “I was quite emotional at the singing of the anthems. The little tribute there beforehand put those memories back in place, seeing that little smile up on the board before going out there and singing the national anthem was quite hard.
“I had a minute to myself when I came off before we went onto the field of play at the beginning of the day and I had my head in the towel. I had to dig deep and go out there and bat the way I know I can and try to clear my mind. It was tough but I got back out there on the horse.”
His first Test hundred at SCG was an emotional rollercoaster for David Warner.
“It’s always going to be in the back of my mind and I’m always going to remember my little mate.”
Warner said it was a difficult moment for him when he saw Hughes’s parents in the stands before the start of play. “I had a tear in my eye this morning when I walked out to warm-up and I saw them in the stands.
“It’s fantastic for them to be here. The hurt and the pain they’ve gone through and how much it would have hurt them to come back today. It’s just courageous for them to be here and I applaud them for making the effort to come down, it’s fantastic.”
Mixed bagOn India’s bowling in the series, assistant coach Bharat Arun said, “It’s been a mixed bag; we have to be a lot more disciplined than what we are. There have been occasions where we have been disciplined; I think the consistency is going to be the key. We are working on the shortcomings.”
