David Warner Reveals His Ultimate Goal In Cricket
Updated - 13 May 2020, 12:17 AM
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There is still some time left for the 2023 World Cup but Australia opener David Warner has already set his sight on the marquee event. The left-handed batsman has missed the better part of the game in the last two years due to the one-year and now the pandemic.
In 2018, he was banned for a year for his involvement in the ball-tampering scandal and returned to international cricket through the 2019 World Cup in the UK. The southpaw hit the ground running and finished the tournament as the second highest run-scorer, helping Australia make it to the semifinal.
The 2015 World Cup-winner has now set his sight on the 2023 World Cup, saying that the tournament is the ultimate goal. The 33-year is not getting any younger but has said that he is in the best shape of his life right now.
“In the last three years, I’ll have had almost two years off, depending on when we play cricket again,” Warner was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au.
“The longevity in your body helps. The get-ups of training and playing gets harder as you get older but I haven’t felt any fitter in my career than I do now. As the legs get older time will tell. At the moment I’m feeling as fit as a fiddle and if I can keep running between wickets as well as I have done, who knows. That (2023 ODI) World Cup is the ultimate goal,” he added.
David Warner further hinted that he might bring down curtains on his T20I career after the 2021 T20 World Cup in India. The Australia batting star stated that he is keen to make room for the youngsters to come in the team through the T20 format just like he did around a decade ago.
“If you’re playing as good as you can and doing the best you can for the team and you’re helping and benefiting them, I think you do want to keep playing as long as you can,” Warner said.
“There’s back-to-back Twenty20 World Cups, and I started my career with Twenty20 cricket, and I think it’s important we’ve got younger kids coming through and they get a sniff and a chance of playing at this level as well,” he added.
If not for the pandemic, David Warner would have been in India right now, leading Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League (IPL). IPL 2020 was scheduled to start on March 29 but has been suspended indefinitely by the BCCI in the light of the pandemic.
