David Warner confirms his retirement from ODIs as well as Tests 2024

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David Warner declares his instant retirement from the ODI and Test matches –

In order to spend more time with his family, Australia’s opener David Warner announced on Monday that he was ending his careers in Test cricket and ODIs. On Wednesday, the 37-year-old, who was a vital part of Australia’s squad that won the ODI World Cup for the sixth time in India last year, will play his last and 112th test match against Pakistan at Sydney Cricket Ground, his home ground.

Warner has scored 6932 runs at an average of 45.30 and a strike rate of 97.26 in 161 ODIs so far, with 22 hundreds and 33 half-centuries to his credit. When Warner played his first ODI match in January 2009 in Hobart against South Africa, he ended up scoring six times as many runs as Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist, Mark Waugh, Michael Clarke, and Steve Waugh combined.

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Warner finished the World Cup as his team’s top run scorer after an incredible performance. The left-handed hitter amassed 535 runs at a 48.63 average and a 108.29 strike rate in 11 games, including two hundreds and one fifty. His highest score, 163, was obtained at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore against Pakistan.

What David Warner Said –

“I said at the World Cup that I wanted to get through that, but I’ve decided to also announce my retirement from that format,” Warner told reporters at the Sydney Cricket Ground. “It’ll help the one-day team move along a bit … but if they need me, they know where I am.”

“I’m feeling great,” Warner said on Monday.

“It’s a great decision I think I’ve made. I’ve got to give back to the family and also on the back of that, I think I’m definitely retiring from [ODI] cricket as well.

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“That was something I had said [throughout] the World Cup – getting through that and winning that in India is a massive achievement.

“I make that decision as well today to retire from those forms, which does allow me to play in some other leagues around the world and sort of get the one day team moving forward a little bit.

“I know there’s a Champions Trophy coming up [in 2025], and if I’m playing decent cricket still in two years’ time and they need someone, I’m going to be available.”