Warner retires from ODIs but leaves door ajar for Champions Trophy


David Warner has announced his retirement from ODI cricket alongside the end of his Test career although kept the door ajar to play the 2025 Champions Trophy if Australia felt they needed him. "I'm most certainly resigning from one-day cricket too," he said at the SCG on Monday. "That was something that I had said through the World Cup, get past that, and winning it in India, I feel that is a gigantic accomplishment. "So I'll pursue that choice today, to resign from those structures, which permits me to proceed to play a few different associations all over the planet and kind of get the one-day group pushing ahead a tad. I know there's a Bosses Prize coming up. Assuming that I'm playing respectable cricket in two years' time and I'm near and they need somebody, I will be accessible." Notwithstanding an unexpected return in two years' time it implies that the World Cup last against India in Ahmedabad was his last ODI leaving him with a count of 6932 runs at 45.30 with 22 centuries. He is Australia's 6th most elevated run-scorer in men's ODIs and second on the hundreds list behind Ricky Ponting who played 205 more ODI innings than Warner. Warner had proactively been supposed to miss the following month's three-match ODI series against West Indies so he could take up his ILT20 manage Dubai Capitals. He is likewise set to miss the T20I matches before then yet needs to proceed with his vocation in that organization until basically June's Reality Cup in the Caribbean and the USA. He is one game away from raising 100 years of appearances in each arrangement. After the ODI World Cup in November, Warner had alluded to pushing on until 2027 despite the fact that he would have been 41 by then and said that the manner in which the group had bounced back in India made it the best completing point. "It was a choice that I was extremely, OK with," he said. "To win in India, from where we were, was totally astonishing. "At the point when we lost two games in succession in India, the bond just got more grounded with one another and it's not by accident or by chance that we had the option to get to where we were. The heroics of Maxi [Glenn Maxwell], the captaincy and the abilities and execution of the way that we played against India was incredible, and not to excuse the Kolkata semi-last also."