Former Australia vice-captain David Warner has spoken about his potential return to international cricket after finishing the period of his ban. The left-handed batsman was suspended for a year due to his instigation of the ball-tampering saga during Australia’s tour of South Africa and has also been stripped off the honour of ever being in a leadership role with Australia ever again.

Meanwhile, Warner has revealed that he wouldn’t have been working his socks off if he didn’t love his work and would have perhaps retired if he didn’t enjoy it.  

“I’m here to play cricket and I love doing that. I wouldn’t be here today and continue to keep working my backside off to keep scoring runs for each team that I play for if I didn’t love it,” Warner said. “I wouldn’t be here, I’d probably retire.”

When queried about whether he would make a return to the Test side, he said: “100 percent, if they select me. I’ll be putting my hand up as much as I can.”

He also added that he intends to use the Strike League as a “stepping stone” to continue his growth as a player.

“This (Strike League) is just a little stepping stone to continue my progress to enable myself to keep scoring as many runs as I can for every single team I play for in the next eight months.

Finally, he revealed that he is using the next 8 months to become a better person and also added that he is in contact with Cameron Bancroft and that they are still very good mates.

“The next eight months, I can reflect on what’s happened and move forward to be a better person, cricketer and a better leader.”