Australian pacer Josh Hazlewood hinted at David Warner’s retirement from across the formats after their exit from the T20 World Cup 2024. Warner had informed before the start of the tournament that this World Cup would be his last appearance in the Australian jersey. Hazlewood had addressed the post-match press-conference after Australia’s loss to India and said that Warner’s announcement could come after the result of the Afghanistan game. Australia’s fate in the T20 World Cup 2024 was dependent on Afghanistan’s game against Bangladesh. However, Afghanistan created history as they sealed the semi-final spot after defeating Bangladesh by 8 runs.
A win for Afghanistan meant that Australia were knocked out of the tournament. This could bring curtains down to Warner’s 15 years in international cricket for Australia. Interestingly, his last ODI appearance for Australia in ODI cricket was also against India during the ODI World Cup 2023 final at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad. Warner’s potential last dance in T20Is will also be against India as the two teams faced each other in a Super 8s encounter on June 24, Monday in St Lucia.
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“We’ll miss him around”
Hazlewood admitted that the Australian is slowly getting used to not having Warner in the dressing room, but will surely miss him after his T20I retirement.
“Nothing’s been said yet,” Hazlewood said. “It might be said after this [press conference] before the [evening] game, but I think we’ll wait until after the game and then we’ll [acknowledge] the career that’s been. It’s been unbelievable. We’ll definitely miss him around the group, out in the field and off-field – an amazing all-format career,” Hazlewood said.
Warner set to retire?
“We’ve had a little taste of it. It’s sort of been a slow burn with Test cricket and ODI cricket, and now T20. Life without him, we’ve sort of gotten used to it a little bit in New Zealand. It’s always different when you lose a player that’s been there for so long. But we’ll move on and push forward,” Hazlewood added.
Warner had departed after scoring six runs during the match against India. The south-paw batter edged Arshdeep Singh’s delivery and was caught by Suryakumar Yadav in the slips.
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