NEW DELHI: Former Australian opener David Warner took a veiled dig at England's "Bazball" approach and predicted Australia will emerge victorious in the upcoming Ashes with either 3-1 or 4-0, depending on captain Pat Cummins' availability for the opening Test in Perth on November 21.

Warner felt that England were chasing moral victories instead of real ones.

"The Australian way because we're playing for the Ashes and they're playing for a moral victory. There's your headline," Warner said at Kayo Sports and Fox Sports' Summer of Cricket launch in Parramatta on October 13.

"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's (Cummins) there, 4-nil. If not, they probably win one game only."

Warner advised players not to provoke England captain Ben Stokes, though he welcomed some light-hearted on-field banter between the sides.

"I had the fortunate privilege to share a change 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 welcomed Marnus Labuschagne's return to the Test team, stressing a player of his calibre who averages 50 in Test cricket can't be ignored.

"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.

England have not won an Ashes series since 2015 and are yet to register a Test victory on Australian soil since 2011.