Konstas pulled off some audacious and unconventional strokes against Bumrah as he had smashed 60 runs off 65 balls in the opening day of the Boxing Day Test last week.
“It was very special. People are going to criticise him as well. That’s the nature of the beast, that’s the way he is going to play,” Warner told AAP.
“When someone like Bumrah is bowling to you, you have to try and execute somehow. They put a third-man in and fine leg to him and bowled him through the gate (in the second innings).
“He will look back on that and go ‘what a great experience in the Boxing Day Test.”
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Konstas had scored 107 off 97 deliveries against India for the Prime Minister’s XI, and followed it up with a 73* knock against India A. He also made two centuries in the Sheffied Shield and scored a half-century on debut for the Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash League.
“What he did in the Prime Minister’s XI shows he has that talent. But it also shows he is brave. Him being brave at the top of the order, you’ve got guys who have played 50 Tests, they could have been brave as well, they could have played different shots, they could have moved out of their crease and batted different,” Warner said.
Warner mentioned that players like Steve Smith have dabbled with different approaches, and hence a newcomer shouldn’t be needed to change the team’s momentum, as it has happened at least from a batting framework.
“Smudge (Steve Smith) tried a million different things. But it shouldn’t take someone to come out there and be brave to get that momentum shifting. You have experience at the top of the order, experience in that whole line up,” Warner said.
“Travis Head took the game away from them in Adelaide with that magnificent hundred. It shouldn’t take that guy just to come and do that. It’s the way the Australians played but other people can be braver as well.”
