 For an hour of the 90 minute sports max zone for this Monday and we're switching now to cricket. One of the games most explosive opening batsmen, David Warner, set farewell to the longest format of Australia's of the game with Australia's win over Pakistan in the third and final test which concluded at the weekend. The left-hander went out in style, smashing 57 off 75 deliveries as Yosses cruised to the victory at the Sydney cricket ground to complete a three-nil series sweep. Warner played 112 matches as Baggy Green in a career which spanned just under 12 years. The 37-year-old spoke with Mike Howard after the match. I think the ease are going to get a break in the change room which is great. But yeah look, these guys, they work their backsides off, the engine room, the big three quicks plus Mitchell Marsh, they work tirelessly in the nets and in the gym and no credit to them. To stay on the park, the physios, the staff that are behind that is outstanding but you look at them, they're amazing and I don't have to face them ever again in the nets which I don't do anyway so. That helps. Tell us about your own day. You woke up this morning. I'm sure your family was surrounding. What were your thoughts at that stage, David? Just a casual walk up to the local cafe, get a coffee with a young one and then yeah, I just got into the car and packed a wine or two, shouldn't say that too loud, getting in trouble but yeah, I felt happy and really, really proud and just to come here in front of your home crowd with the support that they've shown me and the Australian cricket team over my last decade or my career, I can't thank them enough without you guys. We aren't able to do what we do and it's really, really much appreciated. The innings itself, the talk was through the innings. It was, you finish like the way you start, a pull of shots, through mid-wicket, reverse sweeps, you pull out every trick in the book and I can see you smiling about it, mate. Look we're in the entertainment business and I'm just happy to come out here and showcase what I try to do all the time, you know, I started with the 2020 and tried to come out here and try and emulate that but look, I tried to play my shots, go out the way that I had to play and yeah, managed to get the win on the ball which is great. You saw your girls and your off-cancers up there understand your mum and dad, what does family mean to you? Obviously it's an enormous part of your life, David. A massive part of your life and you know, without their support, you can't do what you do and you know, I have no credit to my parents for giving me a beautiful and great upbringing. My brother Steve, you know, I followed in his footsteps and then, you know, came along Candice and sort of got me in line and yeah, we've had a beautiful family and you know, I cherish every moment I get with them and you know, I loved them to death and I'm not going to keep carrying on because I'll get too emotional but thank you Candice for what you've done, you mean the world to me and I appreciate it. These boys are up against the West Indies in a few weeks time. What do you think that will be like for you? I think it'll be quite emotional to watch the guys go out there and not play and knowing that you know, I was able to come out here and do what I could do but as I just mentioned, you know, you've got a great bunch of cricketers here. We are all almost over 30 years of age so, you know, as time goes by, we're not getting younger but this team, they're energetic, they're world class and they're a great bunch of guys. How would you like to be remembered? David Warner was exciting, entertaining and I hope I put a smile on everyone's face with the way that I played and hopefully the young kids out there can follow in my footsteps, wipe all cricket to test cricket as the pinnacle of our sport so keep working hard to play the Red Bull game because it's entertaining as well. Yeah, wonderful series there shown live on Sportsmax, the Aussies coming out on top in the series and Fazir Mohamed now joins us to look back at David Warner's career where he was just asked how he would like to be remembered. I would like to ask Fazir what are his best memories of David Warner? It's an interesting one because when you think of David Warner, you don't just think of that entertaining element but pre Cape Town 2018, you also had in mind that aggression, that ultra aggression that always in your face whether as a batter or whether in the field, even more so in the field going at the opposition and certainly his demeanor changed after that chasing experience of being caught involved together with Steve Smith and one of the Australian team mate Cameron Bancroft as far as using the sandpaper to illegally alter the condition of the ball in that Cape Town test match in South Africa and the tears and the suspension and all of that seem to change that ultra aggressive demeanor but yet he remained that very aggressive pricketer across all three formats and I found it interesting that he made that point about entertainer because if you recall when Brian Lara was saying his farewell to the game during the World Cup of 2007 after that last Super Sixes game against England, this question to the crowd was did I not entertain you and it seems for a lot of players it matters what the audience thinks of them in that context and indeed from a David Warner point of view, certainly you'd have to say whether you love him or you love him that he was very much an entertainer someone who you knew something was going to happen once he was there in the middle. Yeah well you just referenced the sandpaper gate scandal which involved Warner, their captain at the time Steve Smith and Cameron Bancroft. How much of a stain would you reckon that has on Warner's career when history is recorded and you look back at this fiery left hander? Of course it will be overlooked in the end when you look at the numbers when you thumb through the pages or go on the internet and google David Warner you'd probably get the data the numbers the fantastic numbers in all formats and again that's something that needs to be pointed out his captain Pat Cummins says that he's probably the greatest across all formats and that's probably right if you look at those numbers from an Australian point of view but I think that sandpaper gate thing is a huge stain not just on him but on Steve Smith to a lesser extent on Bancroft because he was sort of like the Muhammad Amir of Pakistan where he was being used by senior players to do their dirty work and I think that is a significant stain for all the talk that the Australians have of playing hard but fair there's a classic example of senior players being involved in underhand practices so yes it will be a stain but in the fullness of time people sometimes throw those things in the background and just look at the significant numbers on the field from a player like David Warner. Yeah and you just said Faz that he probably all formats considered could be Australia's greatest openers but you know there are some big names that he would be up against when you enter that conversation you know Mark Taylor and Matthew Hayden and so on but the fact is T20 cricket wasn't so big in their time and the added format of the T20 to the ODIs on the test cricket has given Warner that bigger platform dimensionally speaking to you know to flourish in the different formats. Absolutely it's sort of like hoping to talk about swimming that Michael Phelps can win so many gold medals because they are four versions of the same race over freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke whatever else and butterfly whereas in football it's just a 90 minute game there might be variations that that gather little attention but in cricket especially since the advent of T20 and T20 internationals in the mid-2000s you know have this discussion about all format players and that's why Matthew Hayden will suffer that's why Mark Taylor will suffer that's why all of the great Australians from previous eras are appointing a great chapel of Bradman, Sydney will never come into that discussion because they never played the shorter formats of the game so yes that comment was right you look at Warner's numbers across the three formats and it's an object lesson as well to our West Indian cricketers because we often hear that discussion about the difficulty of going across formats and being successful but here you have in David Warner someone who's been phenomenally successful in the three formats yeah and Farz whenever you think about good players retiring from their sport you always wonder how it affects the entire unit in a team sport David Warner has now retired do you think this will affect the quality of the Australian Test Team in any way or is it that the team is so filled with quality that you know another player will step in and of course do what he did Australia had a problem over the years about having two solid reliable openers until Usman Hawaja was given another opportunity to partner his great schoolboy friend David Warner and so so so now they've been very very successful in that regard and yes there will be a feeling or process for a replacement to partner Hawaja we've heard of Steve Smith himself expressing some eagerness to go up at the top of the order although the Australian captain and the selectors might seem to think otherwise but any team that doesn't matter how good or how great they are will will suffer will lose some of that effectiveness when you lose a quality player but in the case of the Australians I would say it happens less so simply because of their very competitive environment and their very competitive nature the Australians again love them or load them for the way they play not just cricket but play sport in male female anything it's all about winning and they accept nothing better than giving your best wearing the national colors and that's why the fact that they're number one the fact that they won the 50 over World Cup they've retained the ashes in a difficult series that they they've just beaten Pakistan 3-0 yes they will lose some effectiveness at the top but again given the quality that they have and given the attitude that they have I don't think it's going to be a major dent so the quality of the Australian team. Yeah Fais just to follow up on that question from Mariah I listened to Andrew McDonald the Australian coach and I got the feeling that he wasn't too against the idea of Steve Smith moving to the top of the order I don't know if there is any irony there given how much you have spoken about 2018 and the sandpaper gate scenario but do you think Steve Smith a man who has never opened in test cricket before at what 34 years old could take on that job and and and do it well I would actually be surprised if the Australians go that way because it would almost reflect a level of desperation to get someone in at the top of the order to partner Khawaja because there are others in the Australian setup maybe they haven't been as convincing as the selectors or the the coach would want but to put take someone as you said corrected who's been so successful in that position three four and in the middle order because remember he started primarily as a leg spinner batting way down the order before his batting prowess came to the fore so I would be surprised if it happens but again given what what you mentioned about Andrew Mcdonald expressing almost a willingness to entertain that thought you never know that might happen but to me that that would be almost a slap in the face of the of the open as playing state cricket right now hoping to take David Warner's place yeah I felt the same as you Fazz and then I also saw minus Lama Shane pointing out Steve Smith's averages and how his average has gotten better the higher up he goes from five to four to three where he's averaging 67 at three and the suggestion was almost what if he can average 67 at three well you may well just open the batting and you will do well there as well but we leave that conversation for now as we go to a crit break and we'll be tracking more cricket after stay with us