Interest in Warner increases

David Warner, who blasted 89 in the opening Twenty20 on Sunday, is learning to deal with fame and is already receiving feelers from other states. The Sydney Morning Herald reports on the growing interest in the young batsman from New South Wales.

The same paper says Warner’s heroics and Matthew Hayden’s retirement led to more than 2 million people watching each of the Twenty20 internationals between Australia and South Africa on television.

The first ODI of the Australian summer begins on Friday and Chloe Saltau writes in the Age how authorities will learn much about the extent to which Twenty20 is gobbling up one-day cricket.

Emerging stars like David Warner may soon be plucked from obscurity by IPL scouts ahead of international selectors, writes Dileep Premachandran in the Guardian.