Warner offers to end Test retirement to face India

Former Australia opener David Warner says helium is disposable to travel retired of Test status to play successful the upcoming bid against India.

Steve Smith has opened alongside Usman Khawaja successful the 4 Tests Australia person played since Warner, 37, retired successful January.

However, Smith volition determination backmost to fig 4 for the bid against India, starting successful November, due to the fact that all-rounder Cameron Green is retired with a backmost injury, meaning Australia person to find different spouse for Khawaja.

"I'm ever available, conscionable got to prime up the phone," Warner told Code Sports.

"I'm ever dormant serious."

Warner said helium has messaged some Australia manager Andrew McDonald and main selector George Bailey astir returning.

However, helium said McDonald replied saying 'you retired'.

Cameron Bancroft, Marcus Harris, Sam Konstas and Matthew Renshaw are the astir apt candidates to spouse Khawaja, with nary denotation Australia are considering a callback for Warner.

Australia big India successful 5 Tests from November to January, with the tourists looking to clasp the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

Warner scored 8,786 runs astatine an mean of 44.59 successful 112 Tests, with 26 centuries, his last lucifer coming successful triumph implicit Pakistan astatine his location Sydney Cricket Ground.

The left-hander besides retired from one-day internationals successful the lead-up to his last Test, and from T20 internationals pursuing Australia's exit from the T20 World Cup successful June.

Warner is continuing to play T20 franchise cricket and has signed a two-year woody to correspond Sydney Thunder successful the Big Bash League.

He has not played successful the Sheffield Shield, Australia's home red-ball competition, since 2021, but said helium would beryllium "more than happy" to play successful the adjacent circular of fixtures if helium was "really needed" for the India series.

He added: "I did discontinue for the close reasons to decorativeness the game, and I wanted to finish.

"But my manus is up if they desperately request someone. I'm not going to shy distant from that."

Smith struggled successful his 4 Tests arsenic opener, scoring 171 runs astatine an mean of 28.50, with Green's lack aft undergoing spinal country allowing the erstwhile skipper to determination backmost to his preferred spot astatine fig four.

Bancroft, Harris and Renshaw person each struggled successful their constricted Test careers, though Bancroft, who has not played for Australia since the 2019 Ashes, has been successful good signifier successful the Sheffield Shield implicit the past 2 years.

New South Wales opener Konstas, 19, has lone played 5 first-class matches, but deed centuries successful some innings successful the opening circular of this year's Shield.