“Look, I was on the radio a few days ago, here in Australia, and I thought the absolute best time for Davey to retire, if he thought about it, was after the Sydney Test match here in Australia Ponting told the ICC review podcast.
“He had just played his 100th Test in Melbourne and clearly had 200 there in the first innings. And bowing to his home crowd is of course the way any player would like to end his career.
“Who knows, maybe that chance won’t come for Davey now, you know. That’s almost 12 months away.”
“They’ll probably have similar things to think about when they get to the UK because David’s track record in the UK isn’t as strong as some other places in the world.”
However, Ponting added that Warner deserved to finish his testing career on his terms.
“I think his career deserves to end the way he wants it to,” he said. “Sort of not dropping or tapping the shoulder on an overseas tour and letting his career end that way. So I hope he can find it within himself to score a lot of points between now and next summer. . “
“We’ll see where that goes in the future, but I see him [Head] also as an incredible mid-range player,” said coach Andrew McDonald. “He can move the game’s momentum into the mid-range and I don’t think we want to take that away from this team. I think he can get to the top of the order under different circumstances behind the work of others.”
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