Bizarre post fuels Warner retirement rumours

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David Warner's absorption has been forced to downplay caller status rumours pursuing a bizarre Instagram station from the Australian opener.

The station suggested that Warner was headed overseas to Bali conscionable days retired from the Boxing Day Test against South Africa, prompting galore to judge that the seasoned left-hander had been axed amid a mediocre tally of form.

Warner followed respective Bali-related posts with 1 indicating to fans that helium was really walking on Coogee Beach, revealing the Bali gag to beryllium conscionable that.

Despite Australia's batters eating retired against the West Indies to statesman the summer, Warner managed scores of conscionable 5, 48, 21, and 28 earlier being dismissed for a duck and 3 successful his team's six-wicket triumph implicit South Africa successful Brisbane.

Warner's Test struggles person extended beyond the Australian Test summer, with the 35-year-old averaging conscionable 20.61 successful 19 innings truthful acold successful the calendar year, by acold the worst instrumentality of his stellar career.

Despite Warner's thin patch, his manager James Erskine deed backmost astatine suggestions that the last Test of the South Africa series, the New Year's Test astatine Warner's location crushed successful Sydney, could beryllium the past of the left-hander's glittering career.

"No, it won't beryllium his past Test, I don't think. It's quality to maine if that's the case," Erskine said.

"We'll conscionable spot what happens. The large happening from Davey's constituent of presumption is that helium has 3 young children. If your basal concern is you person got to beryllium distant for 9 months, oregon 8 months of the year, it is brutal.

"That volition beryllium the decision, I think, depending connected however helium ends up.

"He has tons of different interests different than cricket – but determination has been nary speech astir [retirement]."

Warner besides has the backing of Australia's president of selectors, George Bailey, who suggested that "there's runs astir the corner" for the embattled opener.

"The mode Davey plays, I don't deliberation that's going to beryllium replaced," helium said.

"The mode he's taken the crippled on, moved the crippled forward, the grounds helium has, that's a situation that each squad faces erstwhile you region idiosyncratic who successful galore respects has changed the mode the crippled is played.

"I don't deliberation we'll beryllium looking to regenerate David Warner. But I deliberation we've got immoderate beardown candidates waiting successful the wings to bat astatine the apical of the bid for Australia."

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