David Warner opens up about his biggest challenge when he moves into a TV career after his retirement

He may be retiring from Test and ODI cricket, but David Warner will still have plenty to juggle when he begins his TV commentary career later this year.

The veteran opening batsman will end his long career for Australia at Test and One Day International level after the New Year's Test at the SCG this week.

He is then signed to Fox Sports as part of the monster $1.512 billion deal with Cricket Australia to broadcast Australian cricket until 2031.

That will see Warner join Adam Gilchrist, Isa Guha, Mike Hussey, Allan Border, Mark Waugh, Kerry O'Keeffe, Brett Lee, Brendon Julian, Mel Jones, Mark Howard and Kath Loughnan.

He will have to juggle his commentary duties with playing for the Sydney Thunder in the BBL

There's just one catch: Warner will have to juggle his Big Bash League playing commitments with his commentary duties.

The big opener will play in the next edition of the BBL, likely for the Sydney Thunder after signing a two-year deal with the club in 2022.

Now he hopes to find a way to intertwine the two efforts next summer.

“I'd like to play that in and around commentary for Fox,” Warner said.

“I just have to make sure that, firstly, I play as well as I can and secondly, I don't hinder the team's performance or disrupt the balance of the team.”

Previously, Warner has spoken about his desire to be his own kind of commentator.

“For me it's about calling the situation what it is, analyzing the game and trying to bring my cricketing brain to the commentary box,” Warner said.

'Sitting together with your experts will be fantastic. I'm sure you will help me as a student.

'…I'll tell it like it is…I've made a few headlines in the past and may make some in the future.

Andrew Symonds (pictured right) left a big hole in the commentary team when he tragically died in 2022

Fox Sports believes Warner can add character to the commentary team that has been missing since Symonds and Shane Warne (pictured left) died

Foxtel CEO Patrick Delany previously said Warner would be an ideal replacement for former Test players Andrew Symonds and Shane Warne who both tragically passed away in recent years.

'We have thought for a long time about what we could do with the reporting. “When you've got names like Gilchrist and Guha, Hussey, Border, Waugh, Mel Jones, it's a very, very big team,” he said.

“However, if you had one shot at a commentator from the current crop to replace those two, you'd probably have to say Dave Warner is the name.

“He's a fighter, he's a brawler, he's exciting. From the moment he stepped onto the patch, I remember at the Big Bash in 2011 when he first came to real dominance, we are very happy to have signed him for now and the future.

“I think he will be a very, very good cricket commentator.”