Shane Keith Warne (13 September 1969 – 4 March 2022) was an Australian cricketer. The right-arm leg spinner is widely regarded as one of the best bowlers in the history of cricket, and in 2000 was selected by a team of cricket experts as one of the five Wisden Cricketer of the Century, his only professional thrower. and the only one still playing at the time.
Warne played his first Test match in 1992 and took more than 1,000 wickets in Tests and One Day Internationals (ODIs). Warne’s 708 Test wickets were the record for most wickets taken by any bowler in Test cricket until 2007. Named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1994 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, and was the Best Cricket Champions of the World in 1997 and 2004 ] has earned more than 3,000 Test runs, with a 99-point score – and remains the fastest-scoring scorer in the test for over a century. Along with playing abroad, Warne played local Victoria cricket and English home cricket in Hampshire. He captained Hampshire for three seasons from 2005 to 2007. Warne left international cricket in January 2007 at the end of the 2006-07 Australian Ashes series defeating England. His career was marred by scandals outside the stadium, including a ban on playing cricket for possession of illegal drugs, charges of embarrassing the game by accepting money from bookmakers, and sexual misconduct.
In 2007, Warne was named Australia’s largest ODI team. He played in the first four seasons (2008-2011) of the Indian Premier League for the Rajasthan Royals, where he played the roles of both captain and coach, winning the tournament in 2008. At the 150th anniversary of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, Warne was named in the all-time Test World XI. In 2012, he was re-admitted to the Cricket Hall of Fame by Cricket Australia. In 2013, Warne was admitted to the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. [13] In a 2017 Cricketers’ Almanack fan survey, he was named the country’s Ashes XI player for the past 40 years. In February 2018, the Rajasthan Royals appointed Warne as their advisor to their 2018 IPL team.
Warne revolutionized cricket with his leg-spinning technique, which was now considered a mortal art. After retirement, he worked regularly as a cricket commentator, especially for Australia’s Nine Network. He has worked for charities and has also authorized commercial products. Seeing his ability, his throwing image was placed outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
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Early life
Warne was born in the Melbourne area of Upper Ferntree Gully on September 13, 1969, the son of Bridgette and Keith Warne. [19] His mother was German. He attended Hampton High School from Grades 7-9 before being awarded a sports scholarship to study at the Mentone Grammar, where he spent his last three years at school.
Original work
Warne’s first recognition came in the 1983-84 season when he represented the University of Melbourne Cricket Club in the then-Victorian Cricket Association Under-16 Dowling Shield tournament. He threw a mix of leg-spin and off-spin and was a low-level batsman.
The following season, Warne joined St Kilda Cricket Club near his hometown of Black Rock. He started at 11 a.m. and, over a few seasons, progressed to the first eleven. During the off-season of cricket in 1987, Warne played five Australian football rules for the St Kilda Football Club under-19 team. In 1988, Warne played for St Kilda Football Club under the age of 19 before moving to the reserve team, one step below the technical level. After the 1988 Victorian Soccer League season, Warne was removed from the list by St Kilda and began focusing only on cricket. He was later selected to train at the Australian Cricket Academy (AIS) in 1990 in Adelaide.
Warne joined the Accrington Cricket Club of the Lancashire League as their paid player for the 1991 season. After struggling at the English level at first, he continued to have a good season as a bowler, taking 73 wickets in 15.4 runs per person, but only getting 329 runs in 15 points. The Accrington Committee decided not to include him again. The 1992 season, as they expected their expert to contribute as a batsman and thrower.
Warne made his cricket debut on February 15, 1991, taking 0/61 and 1/41 Victoria against Western Australia at the Junction Oval in Melbourne. He was then selected for the Australian B team, which visited Zimbabwe in September 1991. In the second leg of the Harare Sports Club tour, Warne recorded his first-class exit five or more wickets in the innings while taking 7/49 on -innings second, helping Australia B to win by nine wickets.
Upon his return to Australia, Warne took 3/14 and 4/42 Australian A against the West Indian side in December 1991. The winner of the Australian Test team, Peter Taylor, got just one wicket in the first two Tests, so Warne was inducted into the third Test against India at the Sydney Cricket Ground a week later.
International work
First international work (1992-1993)
Warne had played only seven first-class games before playing at Test level in Australia. He had his first unknown Test when he was called up to the Australian team in January 1992 for the Test against India at the Sydney Cricket Ground. He took 1/150 (Ravi Shastri caught by Dean Jones by 206) in 45 overs. He took 0/78 in the fourth Test in Adelaide, recorded a total of 1/228 in the series, and was relegated to the fifth Test at the fast-paced WACA Ground in Perth. His poor form continued in the first innings against Sri Lanka in Colombo, where he recorded 0/107. However, on August 22, 1992, he took the last three wickets in Sri Lankan without conceding a run in the second innings which resulted in the second innings collapsing and contributing to Australia’s impressive 16-win victory. Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga commented in the interview, “a thrower with more than 300 Test rifles came and snatched the victory from our hands.
However, Warne’s performance in the last two Tests in Sri Lanka did not satisfy the selectors, and he was eliminated from the first Test against the West Indies in the 1992-93 Australian season. Greg Matthews played in Warne’s place and despite Australia being in a strong position on the final day, they were unable to drive the visitors away from the turning zone. Warne was therefore relegated to Melbourne’s Second Test, Boxing Day Test, where he took 7/52 in a game-winning run in the second innings.
Playstyle
Warne has incorporated the ability to turn the ball wonderfully, even on empty pitches, with perfect accuracy and variability in delivery (notable among these blows). In the final stages of his career, flexibility is not so great despite the regular press conference announcing the “new” delivery of each series in which he participates. Gideon Haigh, an Australian journalist, said of Warne when he retired: “It was said in Augustus that he found the Roman brick and left us marble: the same as Warne and spin bowling.” Warne did this by having ‘two fingers up, two looking down ‘relaxed, the ball hitting the upper part of the palm.
Warne was a fierce rival, Gideon Haigh writes about what he calls the tournament and rated Warne’s court – his exaggerated complaints, intimidation, slums, refereeing, and wasting time, all of which added to his competition. Warne was quoted as saying that “part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think that something special is happening or not.”
Warne was a successful low-order batsman, who was fired 99 for reckless shooting in what, later shown, was not a ball. Warne has hit many Test runs without scoring a hundred, two points in the nineties have been his best efforts (99 and 91). Warne also ranks third in international duck testing.
Personal health
Warne was born with complete heterochromia, giving him a green right eye and a left green eye.
He had three children, Brooke, Jackson, and Summer, and Simone Callahan, whom he married from 1995 to 2005.
Since retiring, Warne has been “working for the Shane Warne Foundation helping very sick and very poor children”. Since its launch in 2004, the charity has distributed £ 400,000; Its activities include a poker tournament for the poor and a breakfast, and “by the end of our summer, we hope to raise £ 1.5 million”. The charity closed in 2017 as it was issuing a blood donation, continuing to lose money four to five years ago until then. The costs of gala dinner, celebrity cricket matches, and annual poker tournaments (its fundraising events) were down. In 2014, the worst year, the foundation raised $ 465,000 but spent $ 550,000.
In 2000, Warne lost his Australian deputy captain after it was discovered that he was sending sexually explicit messages to a British nurse while he was married to Callahan. He also argued with young boys who took a picture of him smoking after receiving funding from a nicotine-producing company for quitting smoking. In April 2007, Warne and his ex-wife reportedly reunited after two years of separation. Five months later, however, he left her again after sending her an unwitting text message to another woman.
After his breakup with Callahan, Warne dated English actress Elizabeth Hurley. Although the relationship initially seemed to be short-lived after Warne was exposed to sending sexually explicit messages to a Melbourne businesswoman, the couple created a media uproar when Hurley later moved into Warne’s mansion in Brighton, Victoria. They announced that they were engaged in late 2011, but had terminated their engagement in December 2013.
In September 2016, a television film about Warne’s relationship was announced. Seven Network canceled the project in the pre-production phase in June 2017.
In August 2021, Warne obtained a COVID-19 contract and was put on a ventilator “to ensure that there were no lasting consequences”. He said, “I had a headache and one day I was shivering, but I was sweating like you have a fever.” He also said that Australians would have to learn to live with the virus.
Death
On March 4, 2022, at the age of 52, Warne died of natural causes on the island of Ko Samui in Thailand. His death came on the same day as Australian cricket star Rod Marsh, who Warne paid tribute to on Twitter just hours before his death.
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