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When Australia regains the Ashes this summer, thank Candice Falzon.
The champion 28-year-old ironwoman knows how to be at peak fitness as a matter of necessity in her game. The beneficiary? David Warner, and perhaps the whole of Australia.
For the last few months at around 5am, Candice has been training her partner, if that’s the right terminology, in how to be fitter, fresher, and able to concentrate longer. Discipline. And it’s worked a treat.
In the last three weeks, Warner has cracked 139, 138, and 197 in three Ryobi Cup games, and 104, and 51* in one Shield game.
If the leftie can keep up this cracking pace, he’s the one who will set up the Ashes success by ripping the England pace attack to shreds.
And he’s the only Australian batsman capable of doing just that.
If and when he does, every Australian batsman will benefit, starting with his opening partner Chris Rogers, and ending right down the order.
Big call? Certainly not. We haven’t seen the best of David Warner yet, but we are starting to.
He was in a dark place during the Ashes tour in England, and it took the ODI tour to India to be dropped for the penny to drop with Warner.
At last he listened to a wake-up call, and Candice Falzon has done the rest.
Her background is spectacular as the youngest ever pro at 14 to be in the ironwoman series, a NSW champion at 16.
There can’t be any argument that ironwomen and ironmen are the very fittest in any sport. The torture they put their bodies through are mind-boggling.
Warner will never be an ironman, but he could well be the fittest baggy greener this summer, or at least pushing Peter Siddle for the honour.
Warner has never been in that space, and you never know, his new healthy attitude may rub off on some of his team-mates.
But the most important end result is for the Australians to win back the Ashes.
And when they do, don’t forget the major role Candice Falzon played in the success.