Rogers in awe of Warner strokeplay

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CHRIS Rogers can understand England sledging David Warner because he is "so annoying" but has advised them to save their breath.

Warner was engaged in several verbal shootouts with keeper Matt Prior, who missed stumpings off him on 13 and 89, and changed direction to momentarily run straight at Prior as he raised his fifth Test century.

Asked whether England made a mistake in sledging Warner, Rogers quipped "he is so annoying you have to" and tipped England would get their own back when they batted again.

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"You only had to look at his celebration. It obviously meant a lot to him and the fact that he could give it back to a few of the English guys. It may drive him. England may have to do something different," Rogers said.

"There is a lot of intensity out there and things are said.

"We are all men and we are happy to deal with it out there. Davey was quite fired up and so be it and it just means it will come back around in the next innings."

Warner's 112 on Sunday was his sixth ton in just over two months following three Ryobi Cup centuries, one in the Sheffield Shield, and another in the Brisbane Test.

His game has reached a stratosphere where team-mates such as Rogers are in awe of his skill.

"He makes me look stupid at times," Rogers said.

"It is not that easy out there. I don't think anyone could play as well as he is at the moment. It is unbelievable. Just watching from down the other end you don't get to see it too often.

"He just has an option for every ball. That is an amazing skill to have. He can make bad balls happen. To hit fast bowlers over their heads for six ... well done mate."

Seasoned English scribes claimed Sunday was one of the worst days England has experienced this century and one of the few occasions when their highly professional unit fell apart.

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Prior's shoddy keeping, which also included a missed catch he did not even go for, embodied the faltering standards of a team feeling the strain.

Given Warner first entered big time cricket as a Twenty20 player he has done well to get to that rare place where he can make subtle changes to his freewheeling game for the pressures of Test cricket.

He is luxuriating in the freedom - for the third Ashes Test in succession - of coming to the crease in the second innings with Australia having their foot on England's throat.

For much of his innings on Sunday it was obvious he was in no mood to negotiate terms with England and briefly he eyed the possibility of a century in a session between lunch and tea.

The force was so much with Australia that you sensed he could have done almost anything and still survived as he hoisted his series returns to 457 runs at a Bradmanesque 91.4.

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England have struggled to mount a competitive game plan against Warner this series because his game has been so broad. Off both feet, on both sides of the wicket against all forms of bowling he is a dangerous player.

His career Test numbers - five centuries in 25 matches, an average of 43 at a rumbling strike rate of 70 - now pass any scrutiny as he forms an odd couple opening union with veteran Rogers, a dry-witted character in his own right.

Both are pocket-sized left handed but there the similarity ends.

One is a scrapper, the other a spitting volcano. One is in the mid-point of his career, the other near the end.

Rogers has the owlish look of the thoughtful soul that he is while Warner is more of an instinct player.

But just for the moment they are a perfect union for a team which should celebrate Ashes victory as soon as today.

After his century he went down on one knee and lifted Graeme Swann 20 metres over the mid-on fence but many of his boundaries were less audacious cuts and drives.

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