A rejuvenated David Warner mentioned he has “parked” the acrimony over his everlasting management ban and is targeted on serving to Australia take collection wins in India and the Ashes subsequent yr.
Opener Warner shrugged off a lean run with a double-century within the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne in opposition to South Africa, driving the host to a thumping innings and 182-run win that sealed the collection 2-0.
Warner’s house summer time had been clouded by his bid to elevate his management ban from the Newlands ball-tampering scandal 4 years in the past.
He just lately dropped that bid, saying he didn’t need his workforce mates or his household additional disrupted by a “public trial” into the occasions in the course of the 2018 tour of South Africa.
Warner mentioned the assessment course of arrange by Cricket Australia to hunt aid from the ban had not helped his recreation, however he was glad to have moved on from it.
“These are things that you don’t want on your mind when you’re going to training or you’re going to the game, so for me it was just trying to get the right frame of mind, and I just couldn’t,” he informed reporters on the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
“That’s all parked now. I don’t have to worry about that. Not even thinking about it.
“(The) focus is now towards Sydney and getting myself right for the BBL (Big Bash League).”
There was media hypothesis this month that the New Year’s Test in Sydney in opposition to South Africa could be the 36-year-old’s final in whites.
However, Warner mentioned he was hungry for extra success within the tour of India beginning in February and the Ashes within the English summer time.
“I think the extra motivation for me is winning in India and completely winning a series in England,” he mentioned.
“I’ve been told by the coach and the selectors they’d like me to be there.
“I still know what energy I can bring to the team.
“I think once I’ve started losing that spark and energy around training and, you know, taking the mickey out of people, playing some jokes here and there … I think that’s when I probably know it’s time.”