Australian left-handed batsman David Warner has defended his controversialsix off Mohammad Hafeez.
In an Instagram video, the Australian batter can be seen answering a manwho asked him why he hit Hafeez for a six when “it was by mistake, itslipped from his hand.”
“It wasn’t by mistake,” Warner can be seen answering the man, shaking hishead. “He was trying to see what I was gonna do. So, he was gonna bowl andstop, to see whether I was coming down the wicket, to see what I was gonnado,” he added. “That’s what happened.”
The video may have been recorded at the day of the final because anotherman seems to ask Warner whether he was going to hit a fifty today. TheAustralian batter chuckled in response but said nothing.
Former Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh had also regretted Warner’s act,saying that the Australian batsman should have let the ball go.
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“Though it was within the rules, it should not have happened. It doesn’tconvey a good message. We have also got a similar chance in the past but wedidn’t do that,” he had said on his YouTube channel a few days ago.
Australia defeated Pakistan in the semi-final by five wickets and laterthey won the world cup as well.
