In a column for ‘The West Australian’ newspaper, Johnson puzzled Warner’s inclusion within the 14-member squad for the three-match Check sequence in opposition to Pakistan inauguration in Perth on December 14.The previous speedster puzzled why Warner has the authority to select his departure occasion regardless of his severe method with the bat in Assessments.
“As we prepare for David Warner’s farewell series, can somebody please tell me why? Why does a struggling Test opener get to nominate his own retirement date? And why a player at the centre of one of the biggest scandals in Australian cricket history warrants a hero’s send-off?” Johnson wrote in a column.
“I have to get in between these two guys at some stage … I think I need to be the mediator and get them both in a room and let them have it out rather than playing it out in the media,” Ponting instructed Break of day on Thursday.
Ponting additionally evident that the variations between Johnson and Warner aren’t the brandnew building and it began six or 8 months again on the generation of Ashes variety.
“They’re both pretty feisty characters and we know this issue that’s come up now goes back six or eight months, back to the Ashes selection. That’s where it all started. It sounds like an issue that’s gone on without either of them sitting down and having a face-to-face conversation. I’d like to see that happen,” he added.
Ponting stated Warner isn’t the one participant discussing a see you later excursion and he would for sure glance to attain runs to complete his profession on a prime.
“He is not the one that’s coming out saying all this stuff about a farewell tour, he just wants to do line up next week in Perth in that Test match and score some runs and he’s made it clear he wants to finish off in Sydney,” Ponting stated generation backing Warner.
