{"id":352447,"date":"2023-12-07T23:29:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T00:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=352447"},"modified":"2023-12-08T01:02:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T01:02:40","slug":"warner-breaks-silence-on-ugly-johnson-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=352447","title":{"rendered":"Warner breaks silence on ugly Johnson feud"},"content":{"rendered":"

D\ufeffavid Warner<\/a> has broken his silence on his feud with former teammate Mitchell Johnson<\/a>, but refused to do media interviews.<\/p>\n

The Test opener appeared at a Fox Cricket event in Sydney on Friday but brushed opportunities to speak to journalists, including 9News.<\/p>\n

Instead he sat on stage and fielded a handful of questions from Aussie women's star Alyssa Healy, who asked about Johnson's withering attack in a newspaper column five days earlier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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"It would not be a summer of cricket without a headline," Warner laughed.<\/p>\n

"It is what it is. Everyone is entitled to an opinion. But moving forward, we are looking to a nice Test over in the west.<\/p>\n

\"Brad<\/p>\n

"When you get on to the world stage, you don't realise what goes with that. There is a lot of media, a lot of criticism."<\/p>\n

It's been five days since Johnson took aim at Warner in a vitriolic column in which he questioned the batter's continued selection in the national men's team.<\/p>\n

Johnson also whacked chief selector George Bailey.\ufeff<\/p>\n

But rather than focus solely on Warner's form on the field, Johnson waded into personal attacks and referenced the infamous 2018 ball-tampering scandal in South Africa, in which Warner was the protagonist.<\/p>\n

\ufeffJohnson later featured on a podcast where he admitted to regretting the ball-tampering reference, but didn't back down from his criticism of Warner's long-planned retirement.<\/p>\n

\"Candice<\/p>\n

Warner announced months in advance his plan to retire from Test cricket following this summer's series against Pakistan, which wraps up in January at his home ground in Sydney.<\/p>\n

Johnson found that call bemusing, given most players announce retirements just before or during a match, or even afterwards.<\/p>\n

Johnson – a fiery former left-arm paceman – also revealed he had been feuding with Warner and wife Candice since receiving a nasty text message<\/a> in April.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Warner has been named in a 14-man Australian squad for the first Test against Pakistan, which begins Thursday in Perth.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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