"That's certainly something that we will talk about when I get a chance to sit down with the team," Ponting said of the off-spinner, who had gone 47-1 against Mumbai in the previous match.
"If he keeps himself injury free, I think he could easily go on and play for another five years," Warne said in a column for the Sydney Daily Telegraph last week.
The hosts were set 323 to win, a score never before successfully achieved in a fourth innings run chase at the Adelaide Oval, with Australia falling a nail-biting 31 runs short despite a battling 60 from Shaun Marsh.