It appears Steve Smith is not entirely on board with the retirement plan flagged by David Warner. 😬 9WWOS Cricket
But Smith didn't seem completely supportive of the veteran opener's plan while speaking before the World Test Championship decider at The Oval, in which Australia will shoot for its first title in the second cycle of the system.
"It's nice to have an end date if that's the way you want to go, but ultimately we've all got to be doing our job and for batters that's scoring runs. That's all of our jobs," Smith said."In an ideal world that's when Davey said he'd like to finish up, but he's got to score runs. All of us do. We'll see what happens."
Warner plans on continuing in white-ball cricket beyond his time in the Test format, with the left-hander hoping to feature in this year's 50-over World Cup and next year's T20 World Cup., and scored just 26 runs at 8.66 in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series.Aussie summer cricket schedule revealed While the Australians are eager to win their first World Test Championship title, Smith made it clear that beating England in England was their chief concern — a feat they haven't achieved since 2001."We got close last time and couldn't quite get over the line.
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