Melbourne: Australia's first-choice wicketkeeper Brad Haddin is contemplating retirement after next year's Ashes in England with an aim to successfully defend the urn.

"I've enjoyed being part of the Australian group. We've got a big schedule with the World Cup and Ashes and they're as big a carrot as you can have put in front of you from a cricketer's point of view. I'd like to be part of that, after that it'd be fair enough to say it's pretty close to the end there," Haddin was quoted as saying in the Big Sports Breakfast weekend radio show.