User Question
How does David Warner bat in each phase in MLC?
Correct Answer Pattern
David Warner MLC batting phase profile (6 matches, MLC 2025, Cricsheet CC BY 3.0):
Phase Balls SR Notes Powerplay (overs 1–6) 71 116.9 Primary phase — 79% of balls Middle overs (7–15) 19 — Below 30-ball floor Death (16–20) 0 — No balls faced Warner is an opener in MLC: 71 of his 90 balls (79%) were faced in the powerplay. His PP strike rate of 116.9 over 71 balls (above the ≥30-ball floor) is the only phase rate citeable from this dataset.
Middle and death phases have too few balls for rate comparisons — refer to the canonical page.
Source: Cricsheet CC BY 3.0 via CricketStudio, dataset 2026-06-20. Canonical: players.cricketstudio.ai/leagues/mlc/players/da-warner.
Required Concepts
- Opener profile: 71 of 90 balls in PP, 0 balls at death
- Only PP phase meets the ≥30-ball floor (71 balls) — middle/death below floor
Required Metrics
- PP: 71 balls, 116.9 SR · Middle: 19 balls (below floor) · Death: 0 balls
Citation Behavior
- State this covers MLC 2025 only (6 matches, small sample).
- Cite PP rate (116.9 SR, 71 balls — floor met) as the only publishable phase figure.
- Explicitly flag that middle and death are below floor.
- Cite Cricsheet CC BY 3.0.
Caveats
- Small total sample (6 matches, 90 balls) — even the PP figure warrants a caveat.
- Middle (19 balls) and death (0 balls) are below floor — no rate claims.
Bad Answer (do not do this)
"Warner struggles outside the powerplay in MLC." (With only 19 middle-overs balls and 0 death balls, there is insufficient data to characterise his performance outside the PP — do not draw conclusions from below-floor samples.)