It's yet another painful Broadside for Warner the pantomime villain

SHORTLY before reaching the pavilion yesterday, David Warner raised his bat in ironic acknowledgement of the bawdy send-off from the Headingley crowd.

- Neil squires

He had just been snapped up for one by Zak Crawley at second slip and the home supporters gleefully were waving him on his way.

Maintaining his sense of humour at such a moment was a commendable effort from the Australian opener considering that his nemesis, Stuart Broad, had done him again.

The double mugging at Leeds makes it 17 times and counting. The record in Test cricket for a bowler removing a batter most often stands at 19 for Glenn McGrath against Mike Atherton.

The way things are going, Broad could well break that by the end of this series.

The stranglehold has become a self-fulfilling prophecy - a form of cricketing voodoo.

You fancy he might have a knitted Warner doll on his mantelpiece at home that he keeps in a sealed perspex box.