England opener Jonny Bairstow says batting alongside Australian swashbuckler David Warner during a successful Indian Premier League helped raise his game.
Bairstow’s 128 off 93 balls powered World Cup hosts Englandto a dominant six-wicket win over Pakistan in the third one-day internationalon Tuesday, helping them go 2-0 up in a five-match series with two to play.
The 29-year-old Yorkshireman carried on his recent form fromthe IPL where he scored 445 runs in 10 games at an average of 55.62 for theSunrisers Hyderabad.
“You’re able to learndifferent things from different coaches and different players,” Bairstow, whoopened the batting for the Sunrisers with Warner, told reporters after the gamehere.
“It’s just little things like game plans. He (Warner) hitsin completely different areas to potentially myself. I guess it’s method morethan anything else. But learning from them, as well as the guys here, that canonly be a good thing playing under pressure with expectation,” said Bairstow.
Bairstow was miffed after losing his wicket to Junaid Khan,with the batsman hitting out at his stumps.
“I was cross because you want to see that through,” Bairstowsaid after England had made light of a target of 359 with their second-highestsuccessful ODI run chase to win with 31 balls to spare.”You want to be going on and getting 160 or 170,and potentially 200 and seeing your team through.