The Ashes series hero Steve Smith has shown a great performance recently but it’s not yet decided whether he will lead the side or not. His ban on leading Australia will end in March. Smith was the captain of the team until he was suspended for a year because of the ball-tampering scandal. After his ban, Tim Paine was handed over the reign. However, Justin Langer said it’s not a simple decision for Steve Smith who scored 774 runs in just seven innings.

“I’ve built a good relationship with Steve over the last 18 months, and it (the captaincy) is going to come down to honest conversations,” Langer told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Saturday. “You can see how exhausted he was from the effort he put into his batting (during the Ashes), and whether he wants the burden of captaincy as well is something we’ll have to work out over time. I’ll be one of the selectors, and I think we’ll just work out what’s best.”

“He’s been outstanding in his time as captain. However long he wants to keep playing for is another thing,” he added.

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Unlike Smith, former vice-captain David Warner had a forgetful Ashes but Langer said he still had confidence in Warner, who scored a century for New South Wales in the Sheffield Shield last week.

“He had a poor series against England, no doubt. That’s just a fact, and he knows that,” Langer said. “But he also hasn’t lost his talent, because he was the highest run scorer in the World Cup two weeks before the Ashes started, and he was the highest run scorer in the IPL (Indian Premier League) before that. So he can bat. The other thing about David Warner, my experience tells me that you never write off champion players. And he’s a champion player.”