One of the feared pacers of his time, Mitchell Johnson has laid into his former teammate David Warner over the latter getting the chance to hold up his Check boots on his personal phrases. The previous left-arm pacer believes that Warner hasn’t scored sufficient runs previously three years to “get to appoint his personal retirement date”.
“Why a struggling Check opener will get to appoint his personal retirement date. And why a participant on the centre of one of many largest scandals in Australian cricket historical past warrants a hero’s send-off?” wrote Johnson in his column in The West Australian.
He additionally slammed the southpaw for not “proudly owning the ball-tampering scandal” but.
“It has been 5 years and David Warner has nonetheless by no means actually owned the ball-tampering scandal. Now the best way he’s going out is underpinned by extra of the identical conceitedness and disrespect to our nation.
“As we put together for David Warner’s farewell sequence, can any individual please inform me why?” Johnson wrote.
“Warner definitely is not Australia’s Check captain and by no means deserved to be for that matter. Actually, he ends his profession beneath a lifetime management ban.
“Sure, he has a good general document and a few say is one in all our biggest opening bats. However his previous three years in Check cricket have been abnormal, with a batting common nearer to what a tailender could be proud of,” the column learn.
Johnson additionally tore into the chief selector of the Australian males’s cricket group, George Bailey, for letting Warner have his Check swansong regardless of his current underwhelming outings within the longest format.
“The dealing with of Warner lately, who performed with Bailey in all three varieties, raises the query of whether or not Bailey was just too shortly out of taking part in and into the job and too near a few of the gamers.
“I additionally marvel what the function of the top selector is today. It appears to have moved to be part of the inside sanctum somewhat than standing apart from it. There’s now throw downs for the gamers, {golfing} collectively and celebrating wins to all hours.”
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