There will be no dramatic retirement U-turn for Australia legend David Warner with national selector George Bailey said they consider the former opener’s decision to draw curtains on his international career as permanent.
Last week Warner had in a post on social media left the door open for the next year’s Champions Trophy having earlier announced he’s played his last international match for Australia.
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“I will continue to play franchise cricket for a while, and I am also open to playing for [Australia] in the Champions Trophy if selected,” Warner had posted.
However, Bailey says Australia have already started their transition phase.
“Our understanding is that David is retired, and (he) should be commended on what has been an incredible career across all three formats. Certainly, our planning is that he won’t be there in Pakistan,” Bailey said.
“You never know when Bull’s joking…think he’s just stirring the pot a bit. He’s had a wonderful career, can’t celebrate it enough, and think as time goes by, his legacy of what he has done for Australia and we reflect back on that, the legend of a player is only going to continue to grow. But as far as this team goes and the journey to transition to some different players, in his case across all three formats, it’s going to be exciting,” he added.
Warner was part of Australia’s T20 World Cup squad where they couldn’t make it beyond the Super 8 round after losing to Afghanistan and India. They have 9 more T20Is penciled the ongoing year that include three games each against Scotland, England and Pakistan.
Cricket Australia announced squads for their white-ball tour of UK and left out Matthew Wade from the T20I team while the likes of Mitchell Starc and Glenn Maxwell have been rested.
“I don’t think there’s anyone who’s not there that we’ve put a line through permanently besides David. This is the way we are going with this squad. If opportunities arise or there are gaps at different points there’s nothing to say that Wadey might not come back, but certainly, at this point, we are excited about giving Josh (Inglis) a run,” Bailey said.
“The next T20 World Cup is 2026, so I imagine there may be some more changes than what we are seeing in this squad but specifically to those guys (Starc and Maxwell), no we haven’t had any conversations about where they think their T20 journey may finish,” he added.
Both Maxwell and Starc are very much in contention for the Champions Trophy as well.
“Certainly for Glenn and Mitch, the Champions Trophy is very much on the horizon, very important tournament for those guys. And Starcy in particular, I think he’s going to have a huge summer. Clearly, some of the decisions made around this series are around prioritising and getting guys right for what will be a really big summer. As far as ending players, seeing where guys might finish up, we haven’t had those conversations,” Bailey said.
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