'Exhausted' Warner calls for rethink of laws

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David Warner has called for a rethink connected the laws of the crippled aft the Sydney Thunder were bundled retired by the Brisbane Heat successful arguable circumstances connected Friday night.

But the seasoned opener's main interest is remaining caller during the entirety of adjacent summer, aft admitting a gruelling artifact of cricket had near him "exhausted".

Rain and the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method cruelled the Thunder successful their elimination lucifer against the Heat astatine Sydney Showground Stadium.

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After Usman Khawaja (94 runs) and Marnus Labuschagne (73) lifted Brisbane to 5-203, rainfall halted Sydney's pursuit astatine 1-52 with Warner not retired connected 36.

The Thunder were 8 runs down the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern par people of 60, but they required a manageable 38 from 13 balls erstwhile receiving connection that play would resume pursuing a 47-minute break.

However, different downpour ruined each anticipation of Warner and his Thunder outfit clawing backmost to win, sending the Heat done to a knockout lucifer against the Melbourne Renegades.

"That was astir apt 1 of the champion wickets that they've produced retired here. We cognize that people erstwhile the dew comes in, it skids connected nicely. It's unfortunate determination was a spot of rain. It enactment a dampener connected everything," Warner said.

"It was rather achievable. It was going to beryllium harder for maine with the longer pockets, truthful they astir apt would person bowled into the wicket and tried to execute that way.

"It is what it is.

"There was thing connected the radar astatine that signifier and it was rather scattered erstwhile they had a look astatine it. There was nary upwind retired there, truthful arsenic you saw with the fume (from the pre-match fireworks) that didn't stroke away, either.

"It is frustrating, and I don't cognize if Duckworth-Lewis takes successful the (power) surge, arsenic well, and however galore runs they got disconnected that.

"There are a batch of things that they've got to look astatine erstwhile they're readjusting those things, but to beryllium fair, we were chasing 200-plus.

"They were 1-46 astatine the aforesaid time, truthful I don't cognize if they person to look into it that way, arsenic well, with T20 cricket, but each successful all, it's unfortunate the rainfall was there."

Warner donned the Thunder kit for six games implicit the backmost fractional of the Big Bash League season, aft the completion of the planetary summertime freed him up for franchise cricket.

The unsafe left-hander struggled successful lime green, lone managing scores of 19, 0, 26, 16, 2 and 36 not out.

On the contrary, nationalist teammate Steve Smith has been successful spellbinding signifier with the Sydney Sixers, carving retired scores of 36, 101, 125 not retired and 66.

Warner's six games for the Thunder followed a T20 World Cup campaign, 3 one-dayers against England, 2 Tests against the West Indies and 3 Tests against South Africa.

He's present acceptable to depart for the Australians' circuit of India, connected which they'll play 4 Tests and 3 one-dayers.

"It's been challenging. I'm rather tired, I'm exhausted," Warner said.

"For maine it's astir coming backmost and injecting immoderate vigor into the Thunder squad and putting my champion ft guardant for the squad by playing my relation for Australian cricket, which is to travel backmost and hopefully enactment immoderate amusement retired there.

"It hasn't travel disconnected this year, but hopefully adjacent twelvemonth I tin travel retired and beryllium a small fresher than what I americium astatine the moment.

"We had a World Cup to commencement the season. Next twelvemonth we're going to person a World Cup, arsenic well, truthful it's going to beryllium a agelong lead-in to our summer.

"So from a idiosyncratic perspective, I'm going to person to enactment retired however to enactment fresh."

Before leaving for India, Warner volition person to be the Cricket Australia awards nighttime connected Monday.

Marcus Stoinis and Chris Lynn won't person to amusement up due to the fact that they're successful the United Arab Emirates for the caller T20 league, but Warner doesn't person that luxury.

"From my perspective, that would've been bully to person had different nighttime astatine home," Warner said.

"But it is what it is."

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