Srinagar: Australia pace spearhead Mitchell Starc has once again pointed out that Test Cricket will be his priority and he will be retiring from ODI cricket before Test Cricket.
Starc has 230 ODI wickets in 119 matches and during next World Cup, which will be co-hosted by South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia he would be 37 by then.
“I’ll look to keep playing after this, but I don’t doubt that I won’t be making the next World Cup. I’ve no vision for that. Four years is a long,” Starc told reporters in Kolkata.
“I’ve always maintained that Test cricket is the top of the tree for me and I’ll drop off the rest before I let go of Test cricket. For me [the semi-final] is just another one-day game for Australia, it’s not the end of the road in one-day cricket as yet for me.”
“I certainly haven’t been at the level I would have liked…or not the same level as the last two World Cups anyway, but now a chance at the pointy end to impact again,” he said.
“Certainly bowling first on particular wickets, the new ball with two fielders out I think has been almost the hardest time to bowl. You get a bit of an understanding of the wicket as the game goes on…that’s not a sob story, that’s the nature of one-day cricket.”