Australian captain Pat Cummins hints there may be answer to mystery of lost and found Baggy Greens

Pat Cummins has added to the intrigue surrounding what exactly happened to David Warner’s Baggy Greens, suggesting there is an answer we haven’t yet heard.

David Warner’s cap has been found, but the real story is still in hiding.

Australian captain Pat Cummins indicated that there might be a definitive truth to be told about what happened to the missing caps, but declined to reveal it himself.

“It’s probably not my story to tell,” Cummins said.

“Maybe talk to Davey.”

When Warner came into the press conference wearing his well-worn, beloved baggy, he suggested it was the team’s security who might know what really happened.

“You’re going to have to ask security,” Warner said.

“I wish I played a prank like that. I literally got it handed to me (by team security) and there was nothing. That’s legitimate.”

Warner and teammates celebrated with friends and family in the SCG dressing rooms after a memorable day.

The Baggy Green Cap of David Warner. Picture: Darrian Traynor/Getty Images

The retiring great was given the honour of leading the team onto the field when play resumed on day four, and as he did so he looked skywards.

“To Phillip Hughes,” Kerry O’Keeffe said poignantly on Fox Cricket.

“Who he would have loved to be a huge part of that. He would have touched his (Hughes’) plague as he walked out of the dressing room.

“There’s a sensitivity to him. This moment won’t be lost on David Warner.”

After choosing not to wear his found again baggy green onto the field on day three, Warner donned his frayed original cap for his last day in a job he has done better than most for Australia over 112 matches.

During the Test, teammate Usman Khawaja – who he has played alongside since he was six years old – said that Warner has often sacrificed his own image for the team.

Khawaja was talking about Warner’s role for many years as the team “attack dog”, who would rile up opponents on the field, because the team felt it was at its best when it was aggressive and in-your-face.

Warner said he never wanted to be that person.

Warner says goodbye to Aussie Test fans at the SCG. Picture: Darrian Traynor/Getty Images

“When I came in to the team, the way that I went about it on the field was to get in people’s faces, to upset them, to get them off their rhythm when they’re batting,” Warner said.

“I was moulded into being that person. Quite clearly I stopped drinking for two and a half years, the coach (former Australian coach, Darren Lehmann) was calling me Reverend, and didn’t like the way I was, which was uncanny.

“But from my perspective, I could still give the same energy on the field without actually having to get into that battle with the opposition.

“… I don’t think you’ll see that kind of sledging or anything like that anymore (in cricket). I think it’ll be a bit of laughter and banter and that’s probably the way forward.

“I don’t’ think you’ll see the old aggression again.

“In five or 10 years’ time if I am coaching I think the whole dynamic will be changing and it will be more about cricket specifics and how you’re winning games and not about how you get under the skin of batsmen while you’re out there.”

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