Warner made his 26th Test century and finished with 164 as no other Australian passed fifty in their opening day total of 346 for 5 on a surface that had something in it for the bowlers.
“You saw what it was. It was a nice little quiet shush,” Warner said post-play.
“It’s just anyone who wants to write stories about me and trying to use headlines, get headlines, that stuff doesn’t bother me. It’s just the fact that I have to go out there and do what I have to do. And I’m allowed to celebrate how I want.”
Warner was pressed further on whether he would try and mend the broken relationship with Johnson, having played in a winning World Cup and Ashes alongside him. But the opener referred to comments from former Australia coach Justin Langer who had written in his newspaper column in the West Australian that Johnson should have “praised in public and criticised in private.”
“Mitch is entitled to his opinion,” Warner said. “He’s a former player. You saw Justin Langer’s comments. He said he’s entitled to it. You can go back to Justin Langer’s comments and refer to them and so be it.”
“There’s been a lot of stuff off the field that’s not really distracted me from a personal point of view,” Warner said. “We had a lot of stuff with CA last year and the captaincy stuff and I was going through a pretty, pretty hard time off the field from all that and dealing with it.
“This year we’ve had a great successful 12 months as a team. We’re all so pleased with our achievements, but we’ve still got work to do this summer. I think, where I am in my part of my career it’s been great. I’ve not really had much to worry about. People make comments but you get on with it and you’ve got to go out there and score runs. Today I did that but as a team, we had a few starts and I know a lot of other guys would like to go on. But I think we’re in a pretty good position on that [pitch].
“I think where we finished today is probably around par minus probably another wicket”
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