Warner preaches patience for Maxwell

David Warner has backed Glenn Maxwell to star in the World Cup but wants him to take a leaf out of Steve Smith's book and show more patience in his innings.

Maxwell scored 95 runs and took four wickets in last Sunday's Carlton Mid ODI Tri-Series final victory against England at the WACA, but Warner said he was disappointed with the Victorian's dismissal with nine overs remaining in the innings.

Steve Smith has often spoke about a more patient approach throughout the summer that has yielded him a glut of runs, new records and a sweep of the major prizes at the annual Allan Border Medal ceremony.

Now Warner wants Maxwell to follow suit and build on his man-of-the-match performance at the WACA as Australia build up for their World Cup assault.

"It was great to see him score runs, but we had nine overs to go and he played that kind of shot (to get out) when we already had nine off the over," said Warner on Big Sports Breakfast.

"I think he's starting to learn now that when you have a big over, you can wait. It's a good learning curve for him.

"We've seen it time and time again in twenty-over cricket he can take the game away from anyone. It's great to see him score runs in this form of the game."

Australia had already scored nine runs off the 41st over before Maxwell, with 95 runs to his name, backed away to the leg-side and swung hard at a Stuart Broad short ball only to send it high for an easy catch by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler.

"I had a little bit of a word to him to say, 'That there, you should go and have a look at that footage of how you played early on in your innings'," Warner added.

"There was a couple of drives he missed and he was a bit hesitant, but that's because he was probably trying to go a little bit too hard. But he's learning and he's really getting it."

Whether Maxwell would listen to Warner's advice might be debatable. In a recent Facebook Q&A session with fans, Warner nominated Maxwell as the most annoying teammate and biggest pest in the dressing room.

Asked if he had any advice for Maxwell after Warner's journey from T20 blaster to Test star, the left-hander replied: "If he would listen for a start it would be easy baha. He will get there eventually, great player."

Warner was runner-up to Smith in the Allan Border Medal count after a prolific year in Test cricket and said he's brought his longer format approach to the 50-over game.

"I know what I can do at the back end of the one-day game, that I can catch up if I'm behind on the strike rate," Warner said.

"So I play my normal strokes in the first 10 (overs) and once I'm past the first 10 then that's when I start hitting gaps and run a bit more and push the twos.

"That's what my game plan is, to try and get us off to a good start in that first 10 by playing normal cricket shots. If I have to go over the top I will.

"As soon as I get past that 10-over mark, I try and set myself a goal of being there in the last 10."

After a clean sweep of the tri-series, Warner has a simple message for the world arriving on Australia's doorstep for this month's World Cup: "We mean business".

Australia's opener was at his bullish best when talking up Australia's prospects of lifting a record fifth World Cup on home soil, and said the team had taken advice from 1992 World Cup veterans Geoff Marsh and Craig McDermott about the expectations of playing on home soil.

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"They sort of said they thought it was going to happen (winning the World Cup) when they were here on home soil," said Warner.

"We can't be too complacent, we've got to keep backing ourselves, and this tri-series was a great message to the rest of the world coming out here that we mean business.

"People think there's a lot of expectation and pressure on us but we don't see that at all. We see it as another game and we've got to win every game to win that World Cup.

"I know me and Finchy (fellow opener Aaron Finch) have spoken about it as opening batsmen that we can really dominate and see a clear message that we mean business."