One of probably the most feared pacers of his time, Mitchell Johnson has laid into his former teammate David Warner over the latter getting the chance to hold up his Test boots on his personal phrases. The former left-arm pacer believes that Warner hasn’t scored sufficient runs previously three years to “get to nominate his own retirement date”.
“Why a struggling Test opener gets to nominate his own retirement date. And why a player at the centre of one of the biggest scandals in Australian cricket history warrants a hero’s send-off?” wrote Johnson in his column in The West Australian.
He additionally slammed the southpaw for not “owning the ball-tampering scandal” but.Â
“It’s been 5 years and David Warner has nonetheless by no means actually owned the ball-tampering scandal. Now the way in which he’s going out is underpinned by extra of the identical conceitedness and disrespect to our nation.
“As we prepare for David Warner’s farewell series, can somebody please tell me why?” Johnson wrote.
“Warner actually is not Australia’s Test captain and by no means deserved to be for that matter. In reality, he ends his profession beneath a lifetime management ban.
“Yes, he has a decent overall record and some say is one of our greatest opening bats. But his past three years in Test cricket have been ordinary, with a batting average closer to what a tailender would be happy with,” the column learn.
Johnson additionally tore into the chief selector of the Australian males’s cricket staff, George Bailey, for letting Warner have his Test swansong regardless of his latest underwhelming outings within the longest format.
“The dealing with of Warner in recent times, who performed with Bailey in all three varieties, raises the query of whether or not Bailey was just too rapidly out of enjoying and into the job and too near a number of the gamers.
“I also wonder what the role of the head selector is these days. It seems to have moved to be a part of the inner sanctum rather than standing aside from it. There’s now throw downs for the players, golfing together and celebrating wins to all hours.”
