<p>Their individual approach towards batting is radically opposite but David Warner feels that playing county cricket alongside senior West Indian batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul had helped him a lot.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Incidentally, Warner had equalled Chanderpaul's record of fourth fastest century in Test cricket scoring a ton in only 69 balls in the third Test against India. Warner claims that it's from Chanderpaul he has learnt the art of batting through the day.<br />"I learned this off Chanderpaul when we were at Durham," Warner was quoted as saying by 'Herald Sun'.<br /><br />"He batted on the bowling machine for six hours. I said, 'This is ridiculous, how can you do this?' And he said, 'If you're going to bat for six hours in a game you might as well practise it'."<br /><br />At the rate he scored his 180 in Perth, batting for six hours would taken Warner past 300. From Matraville in Sydney's eastern suburbs, Warner, 25, always had simple goals.<br /><br />"When some people turn 18, they want to travel but I had no interest in that," he said. "I just wanted to work and make it in cricket."<br /><br />Now his work is cricket, and he is travelling the world.It's all a far cry from the schoolkid packing supermarket shelves who was given a USD 10,000 contract as a rookie, then worked in a warehouse.<br /><br />"I played a couple of one-dayers for NSW and was upgraded to a USD 30,000 contract, so I quit work to train full-time and I haven't looked back since," Warner said.Indeed, his next Cricket Australia contract is likely to approach USD 1 million a year, given he is one of the very few on the 25-man list now playing all three forms of the game at international level.<br /><br />Warner still cannot believe he has become a Test cricketer via the Twenty20 slogfest.<br /><br />"It's still weird to me," he said recently. "I've done it back to front. Now I have to make the most of the games as they come along."<br /><br />Has there ever been a greater understatement after two remarkable centuries in his first five Tests. Despite Twenty20 cricket's helter skelter nature, Warner believes it has made him a better player.<br /><br />"If I'm building an innings it's going to help me with shot selection and to be a lot more assertive as well," he said.</p>
<p>Their individual approach towards batting is radically opposite but David Warner feels that playing county cricket alongside senior West Indian batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul had helped him a lot.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Incidentally, Warner had equalled Chanderpaul's record of fourth fastest century in Test cricket scoring a ton in only 69 balls in the third Test against India. Warner claims that it's from Chanderpaul he has learnt the art of batting through the day.<br />"I learned this off Chanderpaul when we were at Durham," Warner was quoted as saying by 'Herald Sun'.<br /><br />"He batted on the bowling machine for six hours. I said, 'This is ridiculous, how can you do this?' And he said, 'If you're going to bat for six hours in a game you might as well practise it'."<br /><br />At the rate he scored his 180 in Perth, batting for six hours would taken Warner past 300. From Matraville in Sydney's eastern suburbs, Warner, 25, always had simple goals.<br /><br />"When some people turn 18, they want to travel but I had no interest in that," he said. "I just wanted to work and make it in cricket."<br /><br />Now his work is cricket, and he is travelling the world.It's all a far cry from the schoolkid packing supermarket shelves who was given a USD 10,000 contract as a rookie, then worked in a warehouse.<br /><br />"I played a couple of one-dayers for NSW and was upgraded to a USD 30,000 contract, so I quit work to train full-time and I haven't looked back since," Warner said.Indeed, his next Cricket Australia contract is likely to approach USD 1 million a year, given he is one of the very few on the 25-man list now playing all three forms of the game at international level.<br /><br />Warner still cannot believe he has become a Test cricketer via the Twenty20 slogfest.<br /><br />"It's still weird to me," he said recently. "I've done it back to front. Now I have to make the most of the games as they come along."<br /><br />Has there ever been a greater understatement after two remarkable centuries in his first five Tests. Despite Twenty20 cricket's helter skelter nature, Warner believes it has made him a better player.<br /><br />"If I'm building an innings it's going to help me with shot selection and to be a lot more assertive as well," he said.</p>