David Warner Retires From ODIs, Keeps Champions Trophy Option Open
Mumbai: David Warner announced his decision to retire from the ODI format (along with Test cricket). However, he has kept the possibility of participating in the 2025 Champions Trophy open.
Warner stated that while he will keep himself available for selection in the 2025 Champions Trophy if he is needed, he has been thinking about retirement earlier as well, especially after winning the World Cup in India earlier this year.
“I’m definitely retiring from one-day cricket as well,” Warner said. “That was something that I had said through the World Cup, get through that, and winning it in India, I think that’s a massive achievement.
“So I’ll make that decision today, to retire from those forms, which does allow me to go and play some other leagues around the world and sort of get the one-day team moving forward a little bit.
“I know there’s a Champions Trophy coming up. If I’m playing decent cricket in two years’ time and I’m around and they need someone, I’m going to be available.”
Thus, Warner has ended one of the most successful ODI careers in Australian cricket history. On January 18, 2009, he played his first ODI match in Hobart against South Africa. Warner has since participated in 161 One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and amassed 6932 runs at an average of 45.30 and strike rate of 97.26. In the 2023 World Cup final in Ahmedabad versus India, he amassed 22 centuries and 33 half-centuries. Australia emerged victorious by six wickets. During his prime, Warner was recognized for his assertiveness and was considered by numerous people as the most devastating opener globally.
With 161 ODIs, he ranks 18th among all Australians. Warner is the second-highest scoring player from the nation with 22 centuries, though. With 29 centuries, only Ricky Ponting is more than Warner; however, Ponting played 205 more ODI innings than Warner. Warner also has the eighth-highest ODI hundreds ever, tied with Virat Kohli of India (50 centuries) for the record.
Warner is also Australia’s sixth-highest run-scorer in one-day internationals. Against Pakistan in 2017, he hit his highest score of 179 from 128 balls. With Glenn Maxwell’s 201 not out against Afghanistan during the 2023 World Cup at the top, it is the fourth-highest total in ODIs by an Australian player.
Warner has two World Cup victories under his belt and was Australia’s standout batter in both competitions. With 2,278 runs scored by Sachin Tendulkar at the top, he has the sixth-highest total of any batsman in World Cup history with 1527 runs. He is the second-highest Australian run scorer in the history of the World Cup, after Ponting (1,743 runs). With six centuries throughout the World Cup, Warner leads the Australians in this category. He shares second place with Tendulkar on the all-time record, trailing only India captain Rohit Sharma, who has seven World Cup hundreds to his credit. In eight World Cup matches in 2015, Warner scored 345 runs; in eleven matches in 2023, he scored 535 runs.He was Australia’s highest run scorer in the latter.
In only 2016, Warner amassed seven hundred in one-day cricket. This ranks second among all players in ODI cricket in a calendar year, only surpassed by Tendulkar’s nine hundred in 1998. In just 93 innings, he had amassed 4000 ODI runs—the fastest by any Australian and sixth fastest overall. Warner is the Australian who has completed 4,000, 5,000, and 6000 ODI runs the quickest.
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