Australia’s David Warner raises his bat after making 50 runs in opposition to Pakistan on the fourth day of their cricket check match in Sydney, on January 6, 2024.
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Batting nice David Warner has expressed his ambition to take up coaching in future, whereas additionally predicting that sledging will probably be gone from the game throughout the subsequent decade as gamers of various international locations share dressing rooms in home leagues like IPL.
The 37-year-old Warner performed his last Test on the SCG on Saturday, serving to Australia sweep the sequence 3-0 in opposition to Pakistan. He has already introduced retirement from ODIs however will probably be accessible for T20Is and T20 leagues throughout the globe.
“Yeah, I’ve got ambitions later down the track to potentially coach,” Warner told ‘Fox Cricket’.
“I’ll have to speak with the wife first to see if I’m allowed a few more days away.” The left-handed opening batter was recognized for his aggressive behaviour in opposition to opposition gamers earlier than the Cape Town ball-tampering saga in 2018.
Earlier this week, Australian opener Usman Khawaja claimed that the coaching workers instructed Warner to sledge opponents through the early levels of his Test profession, with the Newlands sandpaper scandal prompting an overhaul of the group’s tradition.
“When I came into the team, the way that I went about it on the field was to get in people’s faces, to upset them and to get them off their rhythm when they’re batting. I was moulded into being that person.” He said the art of sledging will soon become a thing of the past courtesy of T20 franchise leagues such as the Indian Premier League, where cricketers share change rooms with their opponents, according to the ‘Fox Cricket’ report.
“I don’t think you’ll see that kind of sledging or anything like that anymore. I think it’ll be just like a bit of laughter, a bit of banter, like me and Shaheen Shah Afridi (in the Test against Pakistan).”
“I think that’s probably the way forward. I don’t think you’ll see that old aggression again,” he said.
“It will change. In five, ten years’ time, if I am coaching, I think the whole dynamic will be changing, and it’ll be more about cricket specifics and how you’re winning games, and not about how you get on the skin of batsmen when you’re out there.” Warner completed his Test profession with 8786 runs at a mean of 44.59, together with 26 centuries and 37 fifties. He is Australia’s fifth-leading run-scorer in Test historical past.
He can also be Australia’s second most prolific batter in worldwide cricket with 18,612 runs throughout codecs after the legendary Ricky Ponting (27368 runs).
