Australia’s superstar batter David Warner has revealed his aspirations to venture into coaching in the future. Additionally, he anticipates the disappearance of sledging from the sport over the next decade, attributing this change to players from different countries sharing dressing rooms in domestic leagues such as the IPL (Indian Premier League).
David Warner Revealed His Future Plans After Test Retirement
At the SCG on Saturday, David Warner, aged 37, concluded his final Test, contributing to Australia’s 3-0 series sweep against Pakistan. Although he has retired from ODIs, Warner will remain accessible for T20Is and participate in T20 leagues worldwide.
“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 known for his aggressive behavior against opposition players before the Cape Town ball-tampering saga in 2018.
Earlier this week, Australian opener Usman Khawaja claimed that the coaching staff instructed Warner to sledge opponents during the early stages of his Test career, with the Newlands sandpaper scandal prompting an overhaul of the team’s culture.
“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 IPL, where cricketers share change rooms with their opponents, according to the Fox Cricket report. He said:
“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 added: “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 [under] the skin of batsmen when you’re out there.”
Concluding his Test career, Warner accumulated 8,786 runs at an average of 44.59, boasting 26 centuries and 37 fifties. He stands as Australia’s fifth-highest run-scorer in Test history. In international cricket across all formats, Warner is Australia’s second-highest run-scorer, amassing 18,612 runs, following the legendary Ricky Ponting, who has 27,368 runs.
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