{"id":33072,"date":"2023-12-08T18:52:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T18:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/warner-breaks-silence-on-johnsons-criticism-cricket-summer-needs-its-headlines\/"},"modified":"2023-12-08T18:52:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T18:52:15","slug":"warner-breaks-silence-on-johnsons-criticism-cricket-summer-needs-its-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/warner-breaks-silence-on-johnsons-criticism-cricket-summer-needs-its-headlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner breaks silence on Johnson&#8217;s criticism: &#8220;Cricket summer needs its headlines&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure class=\"featuredimg\">\n <\/p>\n<p class=\"captionimg\">Mitchell Johnson and David Warner<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul data-sourcepos=\"3:1-4:35\">\n<li data-sourcepos=\"3:1-3:76\"><strong>Warner dismisses Johnson\u2019s criticism as typical \u201ccricket summer\u201d news.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li data-sourcepos=\"4:1-4:35\"><strong>His focus is on the upcoming Test series against Pakistan.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li data-sourcepos=\"5:1-5:67\"><strong>He credits a strong work ethic to his parents.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>David Warner, the left-handed opener for Australia, finally spoke out on the remarks made by former pitcher Mitchell Johnson, stating that a cricket summer has its news.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson\u2019s remarks were disregarded by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/sports\/2023\/12\/pakistani-pacer-shaheen-shah-afridi-vows-to-spoil-david-warners-farewell-test\/\">Warner<\/a>, who affirmed that he and the squad are fully concentrated on the forthcoming three-match Test series against Pakistan, which kicks off in Perth on December 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA cricket summer needs its headlines. That\u2019s just the way it goes. Everyone can have their say. But looking ahead, we\u2019re focusing on a good Test out west,\u201d Warner said to the reporters.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old continued by saying that his parents instilled in him a strong work ethic and a disinterest in what the media says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI connect with my roots. Growing up was wonderful with my parents, who instilled the value of hard work in me every day. As you step onto the global stage, you don\u2019t grasp what comes with it, media scrutiny, and criticism, but also numerous positives. What truly matters is what you witness today, people rallying to support cricket, Australian cricket, and the sport in general. It\u2019s fantastic,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, former Australian captain Ricky Ponting expressed his opinion on the two\u2019s ongoing dispute and offered to arbitrate.<\/p>\n<p>It should be recalled that Johnson, an Australian representative in 256 international games, had expressed doubts about Warner\u2019s treatment by the selectors in spite of his involvement in the 2018 ball-tampering controversy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been five years and David Warner has still never really owned the ball-tampering scandal,\u201d Johnson wrote. \u201cNow the way he is going out is underpinned by more of the same arrogance and disrespect to our country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we prepare for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/sports\/2023\/07\/ponting-urges-australia-to-show-faith-in-david-warner\/\">David Warner\u2019s<\/a> farewell series, can somebody please tell me why?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warner, who has struggled to get runs in red-ball cricket over the past two years (average of 26.74), was only able to gather 285 runs at an average of 28.50 in 10 innings during the 2023 Ashes.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson found it incomprehensible that a player receiving a hero\u2019s send-off for his self-announced retirement and severe struggles in Test cricket<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy a struggling Test opener gets to nominate his retirement date. And why a player at the centre of one of the biggest scandals in Australian cricket history warrants a hero\u2019s send-off?\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"alsoread\">\n<h4 class=\"text-uppercase mb-10 mt-20 fs-18\">Also Read<\/h4>\n<div class=\"post-box sty22\">\n<div class=\"post-frame js-ratioHtP\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/FotoJet-2023-12-03T171707.956-254x144.jpg\" alt=\"Mitchell Johnson slams David Warner\u2019s farewell series\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<h5 class=\"title\">Mitchell Johnson slams David Warner\u2019s farewell series<\/h5>\n<p>Mitchell Johnson says Warner has never \u201cowned\u201d the ball-tampering scandal. He says&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/sports\/2023\/12\/mitchell-johnson-slams-david-warners-farewell-series\/\" class=\"post-link\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Johnson and David Warner Warner dismisses Johnson\u2019s criticism as typical \u201ccricket summer\u201d news. His focus is on the upcoming Test series against Pakistan. He credits a strong work ethic to his parents. David Warner, the left-handed opener for Australia, finally spoke out on the remarks made by former pitcher Mitchell Johnson, stating that a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/FotoJet-2023-12-08T160135.549.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}