Star Australia opener David Warner has expressed his desire to represent his country in the ICC World Cup 2023 in India before calling time on his career. The swashbuckling opener rates playing the mega event in India in three years time as his ultimate goal.
Warner, who has been the face of Australia’s limited-over cricket missed on the opportunity to win the World Cup last year. They lost to host England, who went onto win the title for the first time ever in history. Meanwhile, with the prevailing lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, all the cricketing activities are shut. As a result, David Warner has missed two of the last three years of cricket.
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Speaking to cricket.com.au, the southpaw says it is getting difficult to get up to train and remain fit every day with the legs getting older. However, the 33-year-old admitted that he is keeping up well now and is eyeing the next fifty-overs World Cup in India.
“In the last three years, I’ll have had almost two years off, depending on when we play cricket again,” Warner, who lost 12 months due to a ban for ball-tampering in 2018, said to cricket.com.au.
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“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,” Warner added.
David Warner has represented Australia in 123 ODIs scoring 5267 runs at an average of 45.8 including 18 centuries and 21 fifties. The veteran, who is mulling a T20 retirement will hope to make the most of his time in the baggy green before calling time on his international career.
