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David Warner hooks at Tim Bresnan but is caught in the deep by Joe Root in the third Test at Old Trafford. Photo: Tom Jenkins \/ The Guardian<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, Joey,\u201d said David Warner<\/a> with a smile when asked, in a surprisingly good-humoured press conference, how Joe Root<\/a> had greeted him when he came to the crease for the first time in the Ashes series<\/a> on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said to me, \u2018It\u2019s been a long couple of months, hasn\u2019t it?\u2019 and I just turned around and had a little smile. I\u2019ve got a long memory.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is almost two months since Warner swung a punch at Root in the Walkabout bar in Birmingham<\/a> in the early hours of the morning after England had beaten Australia in their first match of the Champions Trophy at Edgbaston, but it will be some time yet before the Australian is allowed to forget it.<\/p>\n

He had been booed all the way to the middle by a noisy proportion of the 25,750 crowd in Australia\u2019s first innings on Friday, then more loudly when he returned to the dressing rooms after a bizarre attempt to overturn a snicked catch decision.<\/p>\n

He received similar treatment whenever the ball came near him in the field when England batted, and again when he was promoted to open in the second innings.<\/p>\n

After justifying that promotion and offering a first hint of his ability with 41 from 57 balls, he launched Tim Bresnan towards the square-leg boundary \u2013 where Root was appropriately placed to take a good diving catch.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, hooked another one to Rooty,\u201d he added. \u201cOut of all the people in the field \u2013 it was quite comical. I\u2019ll probably read it on Twitter<\/a> a bit later.\u201d \u2013 The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n

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