Come in spinner: SCG curator hopeful of five-day Test

A touch green, but the SCG curator is confident the pitch will go the distance in the fifth Test. (Dan Himbrechts/AAP PHOTOS)

Todd Murphy is firming to play his first home Test, after the SCG's head curator declared the pitch's green exterior would be near-irrelevant come day one.

With administrators still on edge after last week's two-day debacle in Melbourne, an extremely green SCG square raised eyebrows in Sydney on Thursday.