Former Australia opener David Warner has fired opening shots ahead of the Ashes 2025 against England and has predicted a dominant 4-0 or 3-1 victory for the hosts. He believes Australia's focus on winning contrasts with England's pursuit of moral victories.

Warner further dismissed England's "Bazball" approach for the upcoming Ashes series. Warner said he was more confident in Australia's style of play than England's, who he believed was more concerned with morals than with winning.

"The Australian way because we're playing for the Ashes and they're playing for a moral victory. There's your headline. I'll just stick with 4-nil. I think 4-nil. There's going to be a washout somewhere; it's generally Sydney.

4-nil. It's going to be a great series. All dependent on the captain (Pat Cummins). If the captain doesn't play, they might win one game. If Cummo (Cummins) is there, 4-nil. If not, they probably win one game only,” Warner said at Kayo Sports and Fox Sports' Summer of Cricket launch event.  

While urging general on-field banter between the teams, the seasoned opener issued a warning about upsetting English skipper Ben Stokes.

"I had the fortunate privilege to share a changing room with him when he was younger, and he has evolved into a serious cricketer and a fantastic leader. If we can sort of not poke that bear and get him up and about, I think that will help the Australians enormously. But I do want to see some bantering out on the field, and I want to see them going at each other a little bit—obviously not at Stokes—because that is what creates that energy and involvement in the game.

I think that is where the war of words comes out. Generally, it is someone like myself who is starting it, but I want to see someone else in the (Australian) camp start something, whether it is Heady or someone else,” Warner stated.

Furthermore, Warner backed Marnus Labuschagne to get his form back and highlighted his experience and impressive average of 50 in Test cricket.

"Marnus has obviously come out of the blocks very well. When you've got a lot of Test cricket under your belt, you know what he's capable of and you know what he can do. When someone's averaging 50 in Test cricket, you've probably got to go back to that," Warner commented.

Warner also stated that Sam Konstas will open alongside Usman Khawaja, despite Konstas's recent struggles in the West Indies, where he scored only 50 runs at an average of 8.33 across three tests.

"I'd like them to try and stick with Sam, give him a crack. He scored that hundred in the Australian A series. I thought he batted outstandingly there. I don't think we've seen exactly what we know Sam Konstas can do. It's a short-term fix if they want to try and find someone else ... but there's no reason why Sam Konstas can't do that," Warner said.

England has not won an Ashes series since 2015 and hasn't secured a Test victory in Australia since 2011.