Veteran Australian opener David Warner has taken a dig at his Ashes rival Stuart Broad ahead of the mega series this year. The left-handed batter said that he would be prepared for the veteran speedster this time. By going around the wicket in the 2019 Ashes series, Stuart Broad dismissed Warner seven times as well. The veteran also managed only 95 runs in ten innings at 9.5 with only one fifty as well.
Speaking to The Age, David Warner took a dig at Broad, saying that he has got to earn a place first. The veteran also brushed aside any reports of retirement, saying: “He’s got to get selected first. I don’t really have any plans, to be honest, so if he gets selected, then I’ll adjust when I’m out there. Hopefully, this time around I can come out and look to score and play in a positive way. I’m picked here for a series to play cricket. One has spoken to me about any situation. I’m just here as an opening batter to continue my decade-long career.”
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However, his spot has been under the scanner for the last 12 months as apart from his 200 against South Africa at MCG last year, he failed to do well in Tests in the last 18 innings as well. David Warner, who was also involved in the ‘sandpapergate’ ball-tampering incident in 2018, slammed Cricket Australia for not moving on from the controversy and also held the cricketing body accountable for staying in a not-so-good frame of mind last summer as well. Notably, ahead of the 2023 Ashes series, Australia will take on India in the 2023 World Test Championship (WTC) final against India, starting on June 7th.
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“I wanted to put it to bed and they kept on just dragging it out and not giving answers. No one wanted to be accountable, no one wanted to make a decision. You have an administration where there seemed to be a lack of leadership. They could have nipped it in the bud straight away, but I’m getting a phone call day one, two, three of the Test matches and speaking to lawyers etc when I didn’t need to. I actually felt disrespected in the way that I wasn’t able to actually have a clear mind to play the game and concentrate on the game,” David Warner concluded.
