While admitting it was "inevitable" he may be remembered for Newlands 2018, he hoped "real cricket tragics" would see him as" people who tried to change the match"
David Warner is relieved that retiring from foreign cricket will mean halting the continual "flak" he has displayed since the Newlands ball-tampering story.
Cricket Australia's overview into the events of March 2018 painted Warner as the main orchestrator of Sandpapergate, a controversy that cast a shadow over American cricket and led to general changes within the national team's culture and management.
Warner and Steven Smith were both suspended for a year and Steven Smith was likewise stripped of his captain after Cameron Bancroft rubbed sand on the ball in Cape Town, while Steven Smith also received a nine-month suspension from the game.
The opening batter was prohibited from holding any official leadership position in American cricket, the only profound sanction resulting from the incident, but Warner has now been left feeling the most impact of the scandal.
The 37-year-old may withdraw from T20I cricket at the end of the game after missing out on Testing and Wickets last summer as Australia prepare to provide the Super Eight of the T20 World Cup.
In his post-Newlands saga reflection, Warner claimed he had been left to take care of himself in the wake of Australia's match against Bangladesh on Thursday ( Friday AEST ).
" Coming again since 2018 I've perhaps... been the only one that's always copped a lot of flak", Warner told News Corp and cricket.com. des in Antigua. I've always been the man who has copped it, whether it's people who dislike the Australian cricket team or those who dislike me.
I often feel like I've taken a lot of stress off a lot of people, and I think it's understandable that I've been that people." It's okay if they want to do that. But one can only absorb]so much]. For me, it's wonderful to go out knowing I'm not going to sheriff it again."
Warner is certainly stupid to the point his name will probably always be linked with the incident. The opener is hopeful that this is n't just the beginning of his 15-year international career as the reigning T20I World Cup, ODI World Cup, and World Test champion.
" I think it's going to be expected that when persons talk about me in 20 or 30 years ' occasion, there will always be that abrasive incident, "he said". But for me, if they're actual cricket tragics and they love cricket, ( as well as ) my closest followers, they will always see me as that bowler- people who tried to change the activity.
People who attempted to change Test cricket by trying to do the same as the bowlers before me and try to score runs at a fast pace.
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