The left-handed opener has returned to Australia‘s ODI squad on India excursion having recovered from concussion and an elbow damage.
Warner flew again to Australia from India remaining month after struggling a fractured elbow and a head damage in the second one Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, which the hosts received 2-1.
Apart from a defiant 200 in opposition to South Africa in December, the 36-year-old has struggled in fresh checks and there was hypothesis in Australian media that he may retire after the WTC ultimate, which begins on June 7 at The Oval. “I think you work through that conversation, and how each player finishes is always different,” McDonald stated of Warner. “Some want to go out in a certain way, and others are OK with potentially being dropped out of sides.
“But at the present time Dave’s totally in our plans for the WTC ultimate, he is coming again for the one-day sequence (in opposition to India), he is recovered from his damage, so we’re going to see Dave again in Australian colours on March 17 and we ‘ll move from there.”
McDonald said team management were constantly talking to senior players about their plans.
“Juggling the agenda that is in entrance folks, we are staring down 274 days at the street — 144 for the red-ball workforce, 130 for the white-ball workforce,” McDonald said.
“There’s going to be some give and take inside of that. We have nice intensity, were given protection in all spaces and we’re all the time chatting with our seniors gamers about the place they are at with regard to their careers.”
On Friday, it was revealed that Steve Smith would continue to lead Australia in the ODIs, after captaining in the last two matches of the Test series, following Pat Cummins’s departure to be with his ailing mother, who died last week.
(With company inputs)