David Warner currently stands at the top of the run-getters list, having raked up 447 runs in just six innings, including two hundreds. Although his knack for scoring big seems intact, Warner has been visibly more restrained in his approach to an extent where he’s appeared bogged down at times, but he’s remained hungry to grind it out.

“I don’t mean to go out there and bat slow. I’ve tried to get a calculation of how many fielders I’ve hit in the first 10. It gets a bit frustrating because you sort of middle one and it goes sort of full pace to the fielder and you kind of, even get off strikes. That’s been a bit annoying but I’ve just hung in there.”

Against Bangladesh, Warner’s 147-ball 166 powered Australia to 381, their second-highest World Cup total ever. It was his 16th ODI century, and his second in this tournament. While Warner went hammer and tongs after he reached three figures, he didn’t have a particularly fluent start – he scored just 13 runs off his first 25 deliveries.

“I got frustrated against India. I got frustrated against Afghanistan. And then today [against Bangladesh], Finchy [Aaron Finch] kept telling me to hang in there and bat deep and bat time, in like the eighth or ninth over. Because it’s generally not my game to stick there — and I usually try and go after it a little bit come down the wicket or something. But must be a bit more maturity, I think.”

Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza, on the other hand, lamented the missed chances from his side in their third loss of the tournament, conceding that Warner’s ton, and Glenn Maxwell’s 32-run blitz, took the game away.

“We knew that we have to pick wickets. If not then, it’s going to be very difficult, which is exactly what happened,” Mashrafe said. “Warner is batting so well… And I think the damage had been done by Maxwell, that 13 balls, 40-odd runs (10-ball 32). That was the big factor as well.”

It was the fourth time, in five completed matches, that Bangladesh had conceded over 300 runs. While their batting has displayed stomach for a fight, their bowling has been the weak link, an aspect that came to the fore even against Australia.

“You knew that against Australia it can be big, but I think bowlers have been trying their best to restrict them around 300, as I said, 300, even less than 300. For that we have to pick wickets, we know that. In those patches, we couldn’t get any wickets. I think we get wickets when the damage has been done in the late part.”

“But it’s hard for the batters who are asking all the time 350 is always difficult. In this wicket we’re capable to score 340, 320, even 340 could have been chased down. The batsmen are showing their courage, if you look at our batting, I think everyone has been batting with some intent.”