Mitchell Johnson hopes to settle differences with David Warner ahead of BGT commentary stint

Mitchell Johnson and David Warner were part of the Australian XI for a total of 80 matches. However, that has not guaranteed them to be share a cordial relationship.

Johnson had called Warner’s wife’s constant defence of her husband as “cringe” in a newspaper column, to which Warner had a few words to offer to Johnson via text. This in turn, supposedly stirred Johnson to draft a scathing piece on Warner’s ball-tampering incident from 2018 and questioned Cricket Australia for granting Warner the privilege of finalising himself for his farewell Test. 

The two cricketers are part of the broadcasting team for the forthcoming Border-Gavaskar Trophy - Johnson being part of Channel Seven and Warner signing for Fox. Johnson hopes for Warner to have moved on, if at all they cross paths during their respective commitments.

“We’re adults. You move on. You live our own lives, and we all cross paths at some point. So from my point, I’m an adult, he’s an adult. You say, ‘good day’ and wish each other the best, which, yeah, I don’t take too much out of that whole situation," stated Johnson as per The Nightly.

I think he should be able to give that insight: Johnson

Johnson backed Warner to provide detailed analyses in the commentary box, and even admitted to being in sync with quite a few of his takes of late.

“It’s not about us, now we’re in the commentary box — we’re there to give insight. I’ve even mentioned that some of his insight, I’ve agreed with in recent times, he’s going to always be one of those characters that goes harder and you say what he feels. I think as a commentator, you want people to give opinion — he’s an ex-player now, he’s in the commentary box like everyone else, and I think he should be able to give that insight," added Johnson.

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Interestingly, months after calling it a day from international cricket, Warner had stolen the limelight after he openly confessed to being open to come out of retirement for the upcoming series against India, if at all Australia were in need of opening batters.