According to Warner’s wife Candice: “He still has a strong desire to open the batting for Australia in Test cricket

In front of his home crowd in Sydney earlier this year, Australia’s opening batsman David Warner could have called it quits in Test cricket, but his wife Candice said he still has the “passion and hunger” to help his country win the Ashes.

Warner’s Test career has recently been under question, and Australian luminaries are debating whether the 36-year-old is still deserving of a spot in the starting Eleven given that the opener has had trouble getting going in games.

Since 2022, the opener’s Test performance has been questionable; in 14 matches, he has scored just 607 runs at an average of 26.39, including a double-century in the Boxing Day Test against South Africa the previous year. Warner has only twice in his 20 innings of work exceeded the 50 run threshold, following a double-hundred against South Africa. The first batter was removed from the Border Gavaskar Trophy, where he had only recorded meagre scores of 1, 10, and 15, due to a concussion, and he had also had an elbow hairline fracture.

Particularly, after playing the Test match against South Africa in Sydney, former Australia captain Ricky Ponting claimed that the left-handed opener had missed the optimal timing out in front of his home crowd.

But according to his wife Candice, Warner never gave retirement much thought during the New Year’s Test earlier this year since he was focused on the upcoming Ashes series, which will be played in England in June and July. David still has a strong ambition to lead Australia’s batting order. He still has a lot of goals that he hasn’t yet attained,’ Candice said to Yahoo Sports.

“While David fully understands that you aren’t always given the chance to do so, he would dearly love to leave on his terms. After the Sydney Test this year, he could have easily retired, but that’s not what he wants. He still desired to participate in the team in India and remain present for the Ashes, and after that, everything would depend.” In the current ODI series against India, Warner is also a participant, but he hasn’t appeared in the first two matches.