David Warner, who returned to kind with a double century in Australia’s thumping win over South Africa within the Boxing Day Test, has mentioned he isn’t achieved but and has the “extra motivation” to do properly within the highly-anticipated India collection and the Ashes subsequent 12 months. Warner, who had mentioned that Test cricket stands out as the first one to “fall off” in his worldwide profession, shrugged off a chronic lean section to give you a double century of their innings and 182-run win over South Africa.

“I wish you would stop telling me my age. I don’t feel 36,” Warner mentioned after the MCG Test ended inside 4 days.

“I’m running faster than a lot of these youngsters in (the dressing room). So when they catch up to me then I might think about pulling the pin.

“The additional motivation for me is profitable in India, and fully profitable a collection in England. I’ve been informed by the coach and the selectors they’d like me to be there. I nonetheless know what power I can carry to the staff.” On his Test career, Warner said: “Was there doubts? Yeah, after all, there was doubts in my thoughts. But for me, it was about simply going on the market and figuring out that I’ve nonetheless acquired that starvation and willpower as a result of each time I rock up the coaching I’ve acquired it.

“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.” Australia will tackle India in 4 Tests with collection opener scheduled in Nagpur from February 9.

“We know what we’re going to prepare for, they’re going to be turning wickets. It’s different with the venues, Nagpur and Delhi quite dry, then Dharamsala that time of the year, we’ve played there, and we probably should have won that Test, but we lost that ourselves.

“There’s going to be occasions when it may be difficult over there, however it’s about how our batters can construct and bat large as we did in Pakistan.

“I feel with the ball, we’ll do a implausible job, we have got a world-class spinner in Nathan Lyon and we’ll must probably take into consideration taking part in two spinners.” “Obviously in Sri Lanka, we had good methods and we saw in that first Test in Galle, everyone was playing reverse sweeps and sweeps, everyone had a method and they stuck to it,” he added.

Asked if this could be Australia’s greatest probability to win that elusive Test collection in India, Warner mentioned, “Shall I start the headlines now, before we go over there? I did remember somebody talking about two-day Test the other week. It’s going to be interesting.” Fed up with Cricket Australia’s “public trial” to raise his management ban from the South Africa ball-tampering scandal, Warner not too long ago had an outburst and mentioned his household cannot be “washing machine for cricket’s dirty laundry”.

“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),” he mentioned.

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