"For the record, cobber, any one of the 438 spoken languages in India will do me, no matter that each language can have up to 10 dialects.
"What the heck, you're born in Australia so any Aboriginal lingo will be a starter in the 'home girt by sea', Davey, old chap."
Regrettably Sharma may not be so blessed as to eloquently express those sentiments, any more than Warner sharpened his ability to engage in witty repartee while attending Randwick High School in Sydney.
But since when has English become the official language of cricket at the height of battle, let alone any other sport in the world.
The jokers making lineout calls in a rugby match don't drop the vernacular as a goodwill gesture to English-speaking oppositions for parity's sake.
It would also be naive to deduce that any non-English speaking countries adhere to civility every time they make coarse remarks about the opposition.
In fact, using the vernacular becomes an advantage or, if pushed to the limits, a weapon in discussing tactics under the oppositions' noses.
It must have got under Warner's skin that someone was expressing an opinion right in front of him during a verbal exchange and he couldn't understand it, let alone respond with a modicum of intelligence.
Former New Zealand international Dipak Patel often reacted aggressively towards Pakistan players on the field because of remarks that were reportedly downright offensive in Urdu.
Hindi or Hindustani is a bastardised version of predominantly the Urdu language, something Patel, a Gujerati, is pretty well versed in.
In Warner's defence, asking Sharma to speak in English is not in itself racist or derogatory. For that matter, neither is Sharma absolved of any wrongdoing.
If anything it shows how vulnerable the 28-year-old Ocker must have felt.
The world, I hasten to add, mustn't feel obligated to ditch their mother tongues simply because it makes others feel insecure.
Retrospectively, the universe can become a more stimulating, comprehensible and tolerant platform of existence if people start grasping more than one language.
Where Warner becomes culpable is in firstly making the wrong assumption that the ball had come into contact with Sharma's pad before the misfield that saw the Indian batsmen make a run.
Hey, it's all right to screw up. Bowlers do it with monotonous regularity when they engage in the ritual of cross-examining umpires.
Did it irk Warner that someone had made a run unsportsmanlike or was he simply trying to deflect attention from wicketkeeper Brad Haddin's howler?
Whatever the reason for his outburst, it's no secret that Warner is unable to detach mentally from the rules of engagement once the umpires lift the bails at the park.
In June 2013, the Australian opener assaulted England batsman Joe Root in the early hours of the morning at a Birmingham bar following the tourists' loss at Edgbaston.
Fined and suspended from play, Warner was in hot water the following month reportedly as an Australia A player in an on-field altercation with South Africa A wicketkeeper Thami Tsollekile.
Warner later tweeted "it was friendly banter".
Aussie coach Darren Lehmann's endorsement of Warner's behaviour suggests third-party intervention, preferably the ICC because of the Australian Cricket Association's indifference, is vital.
What rankles with people, such as HB Today reader Ian Schofield, is the lack of decorum in sledging.
It is true that the modern cricketer can't understand, let alone relate to, the halcyon days of sandwiches and cups of tea.
That, of course, doesn't mean the game should lose its sense of civility.
Having played some cricket in my heyday, I actually enjoyed banter among players but do recall coming away shocked and disillusioned after listening to premier club cricketers continuously abuse a batsman because they believed he had nicked the ball but stood his ground.
Fines will not work for blokes such as Warner.
You have to resort to Marty Crowe's suggestions of red and yellow cards to stem boorish behaviour.
For what it's worth, I reiterate that placing microphones on stumps, wickets and umpires will at least make players think before they open their mouths and let fans draw their own conclusions.
Or maybe not in Warner's case (allow time to think) but at least everyone will know who said what to draw an educated opinion when punishment is meted out.
