Sydney Cricket Ground’s head groundsman revealed the support that his team has received from David Warner over the years and wished the Australia opener a fitting finale in the New Year’s Test. Warner will play his final Test when Australia face Pakistan at his home ground, SCG from January 3.

New South Wales man Warner averages a staggering 82.94 in Tests in Sydney, having scored 793 runs in 11 matches, including 4 hundreds. Having started the 3-match series against Pakistan with a hundred in Perth, Warner will be raring to go out on a high from Test cricket.

Despite all the chatter surrounding his place in the side, the team management and the selectors backed him for the series opener and he proved the critics wrong with a match-winning hundred. Warner did not get going in the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne, but very few would want to bet against Warner getting another big one in the last match of his career.

“We really have a lot of time for David Warner. He really looks after the curators around Australia. And he’s gone into bat for us a lot of the time,” Adam Lewis told Sydney Morning Herald.

“He knows what we go through, and he knows how tough it is. We’ve got a lot of respect for him. I know my whole team here would love nothing more than to see him get a hundred in his last Test. That would be great.”

Warner recently went past Michael Clarke and Matthew Hayden on the all-time list of Test run-scorers for Australia. With 8695 runs in 111 matches, the left-hander is at the 5th spot only behind Ricky Ponting, Allan Border, Steve Waugh and Steve Smith.

Warner’s farewell Test will be played on a relaid pitch in Sydney and it promises to be a sporting track.

Earlier on Sunday, Australia named an unchanged 13-member squad for the final Test against Pakistan.

“We look forward to celebrating David Warner’s final Test match and his incredible career at his home ground,” chief selector George Bailey said.

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