Play will now take centre stage: Warner

David Warner says he regrets the way Australian cricket's pay dispute played out in the media, but is confident the issue will quickly fade to the background when the national team assembles this week.

And with this week's Darwin training camp to lay out a roadmap to Ashes success as well as preparing for the Bangladesh and India series, Warner said he hoped on-field performances would turn the public tide back to the game

He and other senior players copped criticism during the dispute that eventually secured players a guaranteed payment pool of $459 million over the five-year life of the new MOU. But the opener he did not believe there was any extra pressure on the highly-paid players to be successful on the field and build fans' support as the summer's home Ashes series looms.

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Asked how players can win back fans, Warner was quick to respond: "By playing very good cricket."

"By coming out and trying to win away which is our focus in Bangladesh first, then moving onto the one-dayers (in India) and then obviously we've got a big Ashes series ahead," Warner added.

The Australia squad assemble in Darwin this week to kick-start preparations for a monster summer of cricket with Warner revealing he hopes England will bring the banter this summer.

Warner said he found England's Ashes sledging "enjoyable" as it helped get him fired up.

"I enjoy that when there's a bit of banter out there," Warner said.

"I like to get out there and get myself going, and that sends the adrenaline and gets me going.

"Any time you play against England, they always find something, you've always got to try and be ahead of the game with these guys."

Warner had taken an active role in the pay dispute, using his social media presence to be vocal on the players' behalf in the negotiations for a new Memorandum of Understanding.

That dispute was resolved last week after 10 months of talks, and 34 days after the previous MOU had expired leaving some 230 professional cricketers temporarily unemployed.

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Unlike Australia captain Steve Smith, who chose to work largely behind the scenes, vice-captain Warner was a strong critic of CA's handling of the crisis.

"We regret the way it's been played out in the media," he told the Nine Network's Sports Sunday program.

"We can now just concentrate on getting back on the park. This is done and dusted and some wounds need to be healed."

As Australia's vice-captain, Warner took the reins of the national one-day team when Steve Smith was withdrawn from an ODI series in Sri Lanka last year. And the opener does not believe his role in the recent dispute would prevent him doing the same in future.

Asked whether his card may now be marked in terms of ever captaining Australia should an unforeseen vacancy arise, Warner said: "I highly doubt that ... from where I sit I was doing just what I had to do to be in the frontline for all the players."

A strong leadership duo on the field, Warner said he and Smith had strategized their differing approaches to the MOU talks ahead of time.

"We had an understanding of where we wanted to be at certain points," Warner said.

"At the (June 30) deadline I was going to take it upon myself and represent the players and be more vocal and he (Smith) was sort of going to go behind closed doors and get them talking and make sure he was on the same page with the ACA (players' union) and Cricket Australia.

"The way he went about it was how he wanted to play it and I was always going to come out and be vocal and sticking up for the players."