David Warner Just Smacked An Outrageous Ton In Record-Breaking Time

Apparently there’s still some shadows of the Melbourne weather lingering in the heads of the Australian cricket team, because they are not mucking around on day one of the third test against Pakistan in Sydney.

David Warner fired out of the blocks apparently full to the brim of Weet-Bix, bludgeoning his way not only into the scorebook, but the record books as well.
As the teams went into lunch, Australia’s score sits at 0/126. And of those 126 runs, Warner has an even 100 of them.
That makes him the first player ever to score a century before lunch in a test match on Australian soil.
The powerhouse opener brought up his ton off just 78 deliveries, spamming outrageous slashing cut shots that helped amass 17 boundaries along the way.
The ton came in the final over before lunch, assisted by a misfield in the deep as the packed SCG crowd went bananas in celebration.

It’s the first test ton scored before lunch on Aussie soil, and also just the fifth in test history. The last time the feat was achieved was way back in 1976, when former Pakistani great Majid Khan smashed 108 not out before lunch on the first day of a test against New Zealand, back in the time where test match overs featured 8 deliveries.

Before that, only legendary figures Victor Trumper, Charles Macartney, and Sir Donald Bradman had managed to get to that mark before the sangas were wheeled out.
That’s Warner’s 18th test century in his 60th test match, and his third against Pakistan overall.
If you hurry over to the TV, you might catch him before he cracks the double by tea.
The Sydney test is a wonderful thing, I tell you.

Source: Twitter.
Photo: Mark Kolbe/Getty.

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