Warner gives clues on brewing retirement plan

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David Warner has suggested helium could locomotion distant from Test cricket pursuing adjacent year's Ashes but indicated a tendency to play connected successful the shorter formats.

Greater uncertainty surrounds Warner and a big of elder teammates pursuing Australia's nonaccomplishment to scope the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup.

Australia's 2023 docket is headlined by a circuit of India crossed February and March, connected which 3 Tests and 4 one-dayers volition beryllium played, an Ashes circuit of England implicit June and July, and the adjacent 50-over World Cup, acceptable to beryllium played successful India crossed October and November.

The next T20 World Cup is scheduled for the Caribbean and United States implicit June and July 2024, by which constituent Warner volition astir beryllium 38.

"Test cricket volition astir apt beryllium the archetypal 1 to autumn off," Warner said connected Triple M's Deadset Legends.

"Because that's however it volition cookware out. The T20 World Cup is successful 2024, (one-day) World Cup adjacent year. Potentially it could beryllium my past 12 months successful Test cricket. But I emotion the white-ball game; it's amazing."

Warner is expected to play his 100th Test arsenic Australia meets South Africa successful this summer's Boxing Day Test.

The unsafe left-hander plundered 289 runs astatine the mean of 48.16 and strike-rate of 146.70 to beryllium crowned subordinate of the tournament astatine the 2021 T20 World Cup, but helium averaged lone 11 successful this year's T20 World Cup.

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Regardless, the erstwhile Australian vice-captain isn't buying what the critics are saying.

"T20 cricket — I emotion the game. I volition beryllium looking to get to 2024," Warner said.

"For each those radical saying I americium past it and a batch of those aged radical are past it, look out. Be cautious what you privation for."

While Cricket Australia deed Warner with a 12-month playing suspension and beingness enactment ban for his relation successful the ball-tampering saga, a reworded codification of behaviour could beryllium acceptable to extremity his captaincy exile.

The adjusted codification is awaiting support from the Cricket Australia board, with Warner anticipating a gathering with the organisation's integrity portion this month.

Pat Cummins has the Test and ODI captaincy jobs locked up, but Australia could soon beryllium connected the hunt of a caller 20-over person with Aaron Finch expected to retire.

"It's astir my cognition of the crippled and passing it down to younger kids (as a captain)," Warner said.

"When I americium playing successful the Big Bash (for the Sydney Thunder) ... that tin assistance idiosyncratic similar Jason Sangha and different guys astir me.

"If they're consenting to larn and I get the accidental to really skipper again, I deliberation it would beryllium large for them."

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