Warner reconsiders T20I retirement plan
Jannatul PiealCorrespondent
Posted - 2020-02-21T11:04:56+06:00
Updated - 2020-02-21T11:04:56+06:00
Australia batsman David Warner has said he does not expect a repeat of thretrics from their previous tour of South Africa in 2018, and wants the focus to be on the upcoming T20 World Cup. He also informed that he would like to play next year's T20 World Cup as well before retiring from the format.
This is the first time both Warner, Steve Smith as well as the Australian cricket team are back in South Africa since the ball-tampering drama two years ago that led to 12-month bans for Warner and Smith, with the later also losing his captaincy.
While the media are on their feet to highlight "the comeback" as much as possible, Warne is of the belief that the focus should be on moving forward.
"It's one-day cricket and Twenty20 cricket, and you don't really have much time over the short period of time to get underneath each other's skin or anything like that,"
"And you don't go out there to do that. For us, our focus is moving forward and trying to get the wins on the board and send a message to everyone that the World Cup is in our backyard and we want to be a team to be beaten."
Meanwhile Warner also indicated that he may retire from T20I cricket at the end of next year, as he is looking two play the next two T20 World Cups. Earlier he had disclosed his plans of walking away T20Is in order to continue playing the other two formats.
According to Warner,
"I definitely would be motivated to go to the (2021) World Cup, it's a (short) turnaround."