{"id":351604,"date":"2023-12-05T01:38:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T02:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=351604"},"modified":"2023-12-05T04:02:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T04:02:26","slug":"you-never-know-wattos-retirement-warning-for-warner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=351604","title":{"rendered":"'You never know': Watto's retirement warning for Warner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Australian cricketer Shane Watson<\/a> has warned David Warner<\/a> "you never know what's going to happen" over his retirement plans as the fallout from Mitchell Johnson<\/a>'s scathing criticism continues.<\/p>\n

Prior to the Ashes in June, Warner flagged his intention to finish his Test career with a farewell at the SCG in January 2024.<\/p>\n

"You've got to score runs. I've always said the [2024] World Cup would probably be my final game," Warner said ahead of the Ashes.<\/p>\n

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"I probably owe it to myself and my family … If I can score runs here and continue to play back in Australia – I can definitely say I won't be playing that West Indies series.<\/p>\n

\"David<\/p>\n

"If I can get through this [WTC final and ensuing Ashes campaign] and make the Pakistan series I will definitely finish up then.<\/p>\n

"I want to play that 2024 World Cup. It is something that is on the back of my mind. We've got a lot of cricket before that, and then I think it stops from February.<\/p>\n

"So for me, then I'll have to play IPL, some of the other franchise leagues, and then get into that rhythm to play in June.<\/p>\n

"There will be a bit of cricket around to play. Who knows? I might go back and play a Shield game for New South Wales."<\/p>\n

\ufeffWarner has come under fire from Johnson for putting a timeline on his Test retirement<\/a>, fuelling major discussion around the opener's spot in the team.<\/p>\n

"Does this really warrant a swansong, a last hurrah against Pakistan that was forecast a year in advance as if he was bigger than the game and the Australian cricket team?"," Johnson wrote in The West Australian.<\/p>\n

\"Candice<\/p>\n

Watson described Warner's comments as "interesting", having been dropped himself before making a call on his Test career. \ufeff<\/p>\n

"Dave put a stake in the ground a long way out which hasn't really been done before … that I can remember for the last 30 years of cricket where someone's said a year out Sydney's my place to finish," Watson said on the Willow Talk Cricket Podcast<\/em>.<\/p>\n

"Because you never know what's going to happen, form alone, whether you're dominating you get that opportunity.<\/p>\n

" … You need to make sure you're scoring runs. Ricky Ponting would've loved the perfect send-off that he wanted as well and most players do, [but] sometimes you get a tap on the shoulder and you get no choice."<\/p>\n

\"Bailey's<\/p>\n

Australian wicket-keeper Alyssa Healy added she "couldn't live with that hanging over my head". \ufeff<\/p>\n

"You look at Meg Lanning recently, didn't really get to choose when she wanted to finish up, there's obviously other factors at play there but a lot of players don't get that option," she said.<\/p>\n

"So if I am lucky enough to do it, I think you just wake up one day and go 'I don't want to do this anymore', and you go, 'See you later'.<\/p>\n

"I wouldn't want that hanging over my head for 12 months, knowing the end is nigh and I've got to make runs to stay in the team, that'd be really uncomfortable."<\/p>\n

Brad Haddin, a former teammate of Warner and Johnson, described the latter's column as "odd" and "left-field". \ufeff<\/p>\n

\"Johnson<\/p>\n

"I don't mind past players saying, 'OK, this is why I wouldn't have him in the team, this is what I'd look at'. It looked like a bit of an aggressive attack on Davey's personality, which I don't think you need," Haddin said.<\/p>\n

"Yes, you can have an opinion on what you think the team should be, but I don't like when past players go really hard in a personal angle to the players and it felt a little bit like that to me."<\/p>\n

One man that could replace Warner for the West Indies series is Cameron Bancroft.<\/p>\n

The opener has been maligned since his role in the sandpaper saga resulted in him being banned, along with Steve Smith and Warner.<\/p>\n

However, his form has made an irresistible case for selection, hitting 1,457 runs over the last two Sheffield Shield seasons. Bancroft<\/a> was the leading run-scorer last season, scoring 945 with Daniel Drew second on 656. The opener is likely to take the honour again this season.<\/p>\n

Watson noted, though, that selection isn't just down to statistics. \ufeff<\/p>\n

"That's a lot of runs, that's seriously knocking down the door from a numbers perspective, but that's the thing, in a cricket team environment it's not always just the numbers that are the reason why you get picked or you don't," he said.<\/p>\n

"It's whether you've had an opportunity previously and how you went, how you blend into the team environment; all those different factors come in. It's subjective, it's not just the sheer numbers."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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