David Warner keen on captaincy talks with Cricket Australia: My phone's here
India Today
David Warner still considers leadership roles a privilege and is ready to talk to Cricket Australia about ending the ban imposed on him for his part in the Newlands ball-tampering incident.
Veteran opener David Warner, keen to fill Australia’s ODI captaincy void, said he is ready to have leadership talks with Cricket Australia about ending the leadership ban imposed on him for his part in the Newlands ball-tampering incident in 2018.
Notably, Warner was banned from leadership positions for life by Cricket Australia after he was adjudged to have played the leading role in the 2018 scandal.
Cricket Australia are yet to announce Australia's next ODI captain after Aaron Finch decided to step down on the back of a poor run of form and there is no guarantee he will continue as the T20I skipper after the upcoming World Cup.
"Any opportunity you get asked to captain or whatnot, it's a privilege," Warner told Fox Sports on Tuesday.
"For my circumstances, that's in Cricket Australia's hands and I can only concentrate on what I have to do, and that's using the bat and trying to get as many runs as I can.
"My phone's here. At the end of the day, what's done in the past is done. There's a new board and I'm always happy to sit down and have a chat about anything."
Test captain Pat Cummins, who is the favourite to take over the ODI side, and several former Australia players have been lobbying in the media for Warner's ban to be rescinded. Warner said it was by no means certain that Finch would also walk away from the shortest form of the international game.
