Entertainer Warner bows out of test game a winner

SYDNEY : Australia opener David Warner said he hoped to be remembered as an entertainer after retiring from cricket's longest format at his home ground in the wake of a third test victory over Pakistan on Saturday.

The 37-year-old, who retires as Australia's fifth most prolific run-scorer of all time in tests, made 57 runs in his final innings to take his country to the brink of victory and a series sweep over Pakistan.

It was a highly impressive career for an opener who was considered a limited overs specialist before he forced himself into the test team in late 2011 and stayed there for more than a decade by virtue of his run-scoring.

"I just want to be remembered probably as an entertainer. Somebody who came on the scene from whiteball Twenty20 cricket, somebody gave it gave it his all," Warner told reporters.

"I've been authentic. I've never changed. I've said it how it is, and I still will. I believe in that, being true to yourself.

"Playing test cricket, I've been brave, I've been bold. I've had to play the same way and just take it on. I'd just like to be remembered as someone who took the game on. Proud, passionate and left no stone unturned."

There was no mention in the press conference of the 2018 ball-tampering scandal that led to Warner being banned by Cricket Australia from elite cricket for a year, and from leadership positions for life.

Warner alluded to it, however, when he was asked for his reaction to the ovation he received from the crowd at his home Sydney Cricket Ground when he left the field for the final time in a test match."I've had a lot of ups and downs through my career. I've had to come back and overcome adversity. I've done that, I think, very, very well," he said.

"I think today just showed