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Former Australian cricketer Simon O’Donnell is not in favor of giving a farewell Test to opening batsman David Warner and said that no one should have the right to choose the venue and date of their choice. The 37-year-old Warner had indicated earlier this year that he wanted to end his Test career in January next year against Pakistan at his home ground in Sydney. The cricketer, who has played in all formats, will continue to play white-ball cricket, but plans to bid farewell to the format with a three-match Test series against Pakistan from December 14. The third and final Test of the series will be played in Sydney in January.
“I don’t like farewell tours,” O’Donnell said on ‘Sane Radio’ on Friday. I didn’t like it in Steve Waugh’s time or Mark Taylor’s either. I think it’s an honor when you get called up to play for Australia. He said, ‘I don’t think anyone has the right to say that I won’t play after June 30 this year.’ O’Donnell was asked whether the left-handed batsman should be selected based on his performance in the Ashes series earlier this year or his performance in white-ball cricket, to which he said the issue should be debated.
He said, ‘There should be a proper discussion about this. Like Cameron Bancroft, I don’t know how much more he needs to do. O’Donnell, who has played six Tests and 87 ODIs for Australia, said, ‘He has been scoring centuries and even if he is not scoring a century, he is playing 60-run innings. If he fails in one innings he scores a century in the next innings, he has been in great form for the last 18 months. Bancroft was banned for a year along with captain Steve Smith and Warner for their role in the ‘sandpaper gate’ scandal during the third Test in Cape Town in South Africa in 2018.