Warner's kind act to under-fire MCG curator

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David Warner has travel to the defence of MCG curator Matt Page up of the Boxing Day Test, suggesting the disapproval of those preparing wickets has been unfair.

All eyes are connected the benignant of transportation Page serves up for the 2nd Test betwixt Australia and South Africa, pursuing the arguable greenish apical from the opening Test successful Brisbane, which finished wrong 2 days.

Despite being nether immense unit himself, Warner revealed the benignant words he'd offered Page up of the Boxing Day Test.

"You've got to springiness the curators a pat connected the backmost arsenic well, springiness him immoderate assurance to support going retired determination and preparing the wickets they tin prepare," helium said.

"As a batter, I'd emotion to bat connected cement, but we can't, truthful you've got to find ways and I consciousness similar sometimes there's a spot of disapproval that goes their mode that shouldn't. So I conscionable gave him a pat connected the backmost and told him he's doing a large job."

The seasoned opener, who volition beryllium playing successful his 100th Test, said the transportation looked similar "a normal, accepted MCG wicket" days retired from the Boxing Day Test.

It's a momentous juncture for Warner, who revealed that helium ne'er imagined he'd unfastened the batting for Australia successful the longer format of the game.

"I got thrown into opening the batting," helium said.

"I ever thought that I might've had that imagination of possibly being a mediate bid batter for Australia successful 1 time cricket specifically, not Test matches. But to travel retired present and play my 100th Test wherever I started my T20 vocation is amazing.

"I inactive pinch myself contiguous and I'm arsenic excited arsenic ever to get backmost retired present and play different Boxing Day Test. It's inactive a surreal moment."

There is immense unit connected Warner to instrumentality a large people pursuing a thin calendar twelvemonth successful the Test arena, but helium isn't daunted by the level of expectations.

"Growing up done a lodging committee truly taught maine however to combat hard and to execute that extremity that you wanted to do," helium said.

"I'm surviving each lodging committee boy's dream. I wanted to play cricket for Australia, I'm doing that now.

"Yeah, my back's up against a wall, but it's successful my DNA to support being competitory and to travel retired present with a grin connected my look and to instrumentality connected immoderate absorption I'm astir to face.

"I'm present contiguous lasting astir to play my 100th Test lucifer and I couldn't beryllium immoderate much arrogant of me, my household for getting maine here, and my closest friends."

Australia volition wage tribute to Shane Warne, with the Test the archetypal to beryllium played astatine the rotation icon's beloved MCG since his abrupt decease earlier this year, and Warner said Australia's information to triumph the Test was "massive" successful bid to honour Warne.

"From our perspective, it was large coming done erstwhile Phil (Hughes) passed away," helium said.

"Obviously an icon of the game, Shane Warne, who I didn't get an accidental to play with, but what helium did for cricket, for Australian cricket, and for radical astir the satellite was perfectly amazing.

"I loved increasing up watching Warnie. He was specified a larrikin, helium got the champion retired of each azygous person, and erstwhile helium was connected the tract that competitory quality that helium ever had was fantastic.

"It's going to beryllium a large juncture for america arsenic a team, but for everyone successful cricket successful particularly Australia and Melbourne.

"When you get retired here, recognise that and enactment connected your floppy (hats) and immoderate achromatic zinc, it'll beryllium overmuch appreciated."

Australia has the accidental to seal a bid triumph against South Africa connected Boxing Day, with the 3rd Test to beryllium played astatine the SCG successful the archetypal week of January.

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