Bancroft insists no issues with Warner

Cameron Bancroft insists he harbours no ill will towards David Warner, saying that he's looking to the day he can play alongside the man fingered as the mastermind behind the Cape Town ball-tampering plot.

In his fourth game back since his nine-month ban for his role in the scandal elapsed, Bancroft struck a match-winning half-century for the Perth Scorchers to lift the club off the bottom of the KFC BBL standings.

His 42-ball 59 was a timely reminder of his ability with the bat; the first of his two sixes was comfortably the most crisply struck on the night, clearing a long leg-side boundary with ease and finding fluency on a challenging MCG surface.

Bancroft revealed he remains in touch with Warner and captain Steve Smith, both of whom copped 12-month suspensions, and said he hopes he can one day continue learning off his former opening partner.

"Absolutely," Bancroft told reporters when asked if he'd be happy to play with Warner again. "We're good people, very honest and passionate people.

"Dave, like Steve, all of us, we've all gone through our challenges, haven't we?

"We've all been there for each other and I look forward to a day like that where I can go out and play cricket with Dave again.

"He's a quality cricketer and someone who's achieved so much in that cricket team.

"As a player like myself, you strive to be around players like that. For my own learning as a cricketer, I'd love for that to happen."

Test legend Ricky Ponting had been among who'd questioned Bancroft for an interview broadcast on Fox Cricket, his first since he addressed media in Perth on his return home from South Africa in March, but Bancroft said he hadn't been affected by the criticism. 

"People are entitled to their opinions," said the 26-year-old.

"That's the beauty of the world. The opportunity is there for people to share those. I go to bed every night, wake up each day looking to improve as a person and … to improve as a cricketer.

"Those other opinions, that's for other people to control."

Having also taken the wicketkeeping gloves for the Scorchers in his comeback, Bancroft has re-emerged as an integral player in Western Australian cricket.

He looks set to resume his spot at the top of the order for the state's JLT Sheffield Shield side when the competition resumes next month.

From there he'll head to the United Kingdom to join county side Durham in April, with the batsman stressing his stint with the club is more about making up for lost time than pushing for a Test recall in an Ashes year.

"If those other factors come into consideration, that's absolutely fantastic but I'm just really grateful to be back playing cricket and I'll keep looking to do that," he said.

"I just love playing cricket, regardless of the Ashes, it was something I was really keen to do.

"I've missed a chunk of domestic cricket and come the end of the cricket season I'll just be keen to get over there and continue to improve and enjoy this great game."

Chris Lynn this week revealed on Macquarie Radio that James Pattinson had aimed a cheeky sledge Bancroft's way regarding his batting technique in the Brisbane Heat’s game against the Scorchers, with the paceman quipping, "you had nine months to get that front pad out of the way".

While Bancroft said he hadn't noticed anything untoward from opposition teams in his return, he revealed he'd used his time away from the day-to-day rigours of playing to iron out issues in his technique.

"I've worked on a lot of things in my game during my ban," he told Channel Seven.

"When you've played lots of games for a long period of time, and I only probably realised this during my ban, was how you put band-aids over problems with your technique because it's all about making runs.

"I guess I was able to take a step back, really work on firming up my top wrist and working on my back-foot play a bit with the real intention to be really positive."