The Australian opening batsman David Warner has slammed Cricket Australia for ‘very very’ poor scheduling of the international games this year. The Australian team is set to participate in two international games on two consecutive days with one being a T20I against Sri Lanka to be played at Adelaide Oval in Australia and the one is a Test match against India at Pune. This will force many mainstream players to skip the T20I game against Sri Lanka, which will see many newcomers in the squad.
“It is very, very poor scheduling,” Warner told Fox Sports. “To have your Test team going away to play a Test match and one-dayers overseas, it doesn’t make any sense to us. I don’t like it.”
Cricket Australia is contemplating to make two different sides for the different formats of the game but this has not come good to Warner who has an eye set on the T20 World Cup 2018, “Those of us who are part of the T20 team have a bigger goal and bigger picture, and that is to win a World Cup,” Warner said.
“If we are not playing any T20 cricket in Australia, where the next World Cup is meant to be, it becomes quite a tough thing for selectors to work around.
“You want to be putting your best team on the park all the time. We have one-day stuff where you can put your foot down and prove some things, but for me, it’s about playing my best in any of the three formats that you play.
“If me, Smithy (Steve Smith), Starcy (Mitchell Starc), Ussy (Usman Khawaja), Shaun Marsh – all these guys that are in the Australian T20 team from the previous World Cup – if we are not playing any T20 cricket in Australia, where the next World Cup is meant to be, it becomes quite a tough thing for selectors to work around,” Warner added.