Australia opener David Warner has said that he will be putting his name up in the auction for the next season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) as he wants to make a fresh start in the cash-rich league.
Warner said he has likely played his final game for Sunrisers Hyderabad, where he has spent eight seasons and with whom he won the 2016 championship.
“I will put my name in the auction,” he confirmed to the radio station. “By the signs of the recent IPL, I won’t be retained by the Sunrisers, so I’m looking forward to a fresh start.”
Warner, who was stripped of the Sunrisers captaincy earlier in the season, said that being left out of the squad for the final six games of the UAE leg of IPL 2021 was a “tough pill to swallow”.
“It was a tough pill to swallow,” Warner told a morning show on Australian radio station SEN, on Thursday.
“I kind of laughed at the reasoning, that two guys were hitting the ball out of the middle a little bit better than I was. Given that when you’re playing the game you’re playing the scenario…,” he said.
