LIVE: Warner reveals retirement vow with Usman

Aussie opening partners David Warner and Usman Khawaja person vowed to not permission the Test broadside "in a hole" erstwhile the clip comes for 1 oregon some of them to telephone stumps connected their careers.

Speaking connected Fox Cricket during yesterday's upwind delay, Warner revealed helium and Khawaja had discussed their retirements and what they would mean to the Aussie side.

He said filling the spread near by the status of Langer and Hayden, arsenic good arsenic respective different cardinal stars wrong the abstraction of a fewer years, near the broadside void of experience.

"I cognize done that benignant of 5 twelvemonth modulation play erstwhile a batch of the greats left, determination were large holes to capable with the magnitude of games that you play," helium said.

"So we ever speech astir games played and however overmuch that means into a team's show and position with experience. And you can't capable that void."

Warner flagged Matt Renshaw - who tested affirmative for COVID-19 connected a RAT successful the hours earlier play began yesterday - arsenic 1 subordinate who could capable his position. Although already 30, Warner believes Marcus Harris was another.

"The squad is successful a large presumption for erstwhile we determine to permission - oregon not execute and get tapped connected the shoulder," helium said.

Warner and Khawaja came done the Sydney inferior cricket country unneurotic and were adjacent friends passim their childhoods.

Warner was astatine the SCG erstwhile Khawaja made his trial debut successful the Sydney trial of the 2010-11 Ashes series, which Australia mislaid 3-1.

"I retrieve sitting present (for) his archetypal crippled up successful a container - I hadn't played Test cricket yet - and it brought a teardrop to my eyes seeing a person of mine, a adjacent person of excavation spell retired determination and debut."

Warner made his debut 11 months aboriginal against New Zealand.

"I played a batch of cricket increasing up with him, and playing alongside him has been fantastic.

"It's conscionable large to spot him retired determination enjoying his cricket for what it is. 

"As helium keeps saying to me, it could beryllium our past crippled together. (So) we're gonna bask the adjacent 4 months, bask it arsenic overmuch arsenic we tin and hopefully helium tin play a spot longer than what I can."