David Warner has declared his 2019 struggles will be near irrelevant heading into the Ashes, with the opener vowing to take a more aggressive approach than four years ago.
Warner confirmed on Saturday this year's Ashes will be his last away Test tour, with the 36-year-old planning on retiring from red-ball cricket midway through the upcoming home summer.
But to keep his spot and get his dream farewell in Sydney against Pakistan next January, Warner will need far greater returns than when he averaged 9.5 in England four years ago.
The left-hander admitted he had been too defensive in that series, but said he would enter this series a different man.
Warner was dismissed seven times by Stuart Broad in 2019, with none of the outs coming from an attacking shot.
"If I'm critical of myself, it was probably going away from my game plan which is looking to score," Warner said.
"I was listening to some other voices, which for my perspective, probably didn't suit my game.
"I felt like I batted my best at Leeds (with a 61) and that was the way I normally played. If you can put the bowlers off their line and lengths and put pressure on them.
"That's how you score runs. That's when I'm at my best."
Warner said that approach was boosted by the fact he will enter Wednesday's World Test Championship final against India and subsequent Ashes series straight out of the IPL.
He was Dehli's leading run-scorer in the tournament with 516 at an average of 36.85 and strike-rate of 131.63.
"In that format, you have to look to score and I think that's held me in good stead for this preparation," Warner said.
"Here I've actually been superb (in training). My feet have been moving, my energy has been moving. I've been up and about.
"Sometimes when I've led from red-ball state cricket into a Test match series I've gone out of to survive and changed my characteristics of my batting.
"It helps me more when I go from white-ball cricket to red ball because I'm in that mode of looking to score.
"I'm happy to nick off playing cover drives, rather than a front-foot defence and getting bowled or nicked off from there."
The other difference from 2019 in Warner's mind is also the Dukes ball.
Openers averaged 20.22 in that series across both teams, as Broad also wreaked havoc against Marcus Harris and Cameron Bancroft at the top for Australia.
Warner joked when asked about that series if it could be considered "void" for openers, in a reference to Broad's claim the 2021-22 Ashes did not count due to COVID restrictions.
But the veteran Australian is serious about the fact those returns will not linger in his mind come the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston on June 16.
"I look back and look at the dismissals and look at both opening pairs. That was a difficult time to bat," Warner said.
"I looked at the 2019 Dukes ball compared to the 2023 ball, it's completely different as well.
"There was a higher pronounced seam back then ... It was hard to tackle. Once you got in the ball still moved around for for the 80 overs.
"It was difficult. There was nothing to do with any of my technique or anything."
