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Shane Warne

February 22, 2023

Shane Keith Warne AO (13 September 1969 – 4 March 2022) was an Australian international cricketer, whose career ran from 1991 to 2007. Warne played as a right-arm leg spin bowler and a right-handed batsman for Victoria, Hampshire and Australia. He is one of the greatest bowlers in the history of the sport; he made 145 Test appearances, taking 708 wickets, and set the record for the most wickets taken by any bowler in Test cricket, a record he held until 2007.

Shane Warne

AO
Warne in 2015
Personal information
Full name
Shane Keith Warne
Born(1969-09-13)13 September 1969
Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Australia
Died4 March 2022(2022-03-04) (aged 52)
Ko Samui, Thailand
NicknameWarnie[1]
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm leg break
RoleBowler
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 350)2 January 1992 v India
Last Test2 January 2007 v England
ODI debut (cap 110)24 March 1993 v New Zealand
Last ODI10 January 2005 v Asia XI
ODI shirt no.23
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1990/91–2006/07Victoria (squad no. 23)
2000–2007Hampshire (squad no. 23)
2008–2012Rajasthan Royals (squad no. 23)
2011/12–2012/13Melbourne Stars (squad no. 23)
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 145 194 301 311
Runs scored 3,154 1,018 6,919 1,879
Batting average 17.32 13.05 19.43 11.81
100s/50s 0/12 0/1 2/26 0/1
Top score 99 55 107* 55
Balls bowled 40,705 10,642 74,830 16,419
Wickets 708 293 1,319 473
Bowling average 25.41 25.73 26.11 24.61
5 wickets in innings 37 1 69 3
10 wickets in match 10 0 12 0
Best bowling 8/71 5/33 8/71 6/42
Catches/stumpings 125/– 80/– 264/– 126/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 29 March 2008

Warne was a useful lower-order batsman who scored more than 3,000 Test runs, with a highest score of 99. He retired from international cricket at the end of Australia's 2006–07 Ashes series victory over England.

In the first four seasons of the Indian Premier League (IPL), Warne was a player-coach for Rajasthan Royals and also captained the team. During his career, Warne was involved in off-field scandals; his censures included a ban from cricket for testing positive for a prohibited substance, and charges of sexual indiscretions and bringing the game into disrepute. Warnie was a loved figure globally with a huge following in every cricket nation. Alongside Warnie,[2] his other nicknames and phrases of endearment included The King,[3] Baron of Baked Beans,[4] Suicide,[5] The Sheikh of Tweak,[6] Hollywood,[7] The King of Spin[8] The Earl of Twirl,[9] The Murali of Melbourne[10] and Twistie [11]

Warne revolutionised cricket thinking with his mastery of leg spin, then regarded as a dying art. After retirement, he regularly worked as a cricket commentator and for charities and endorsed commercial products. In recognition of his skill, a statue of Warne bowling was placed outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), where he was also honoured with a state memorial service, as well as having a grandstand named in his honour. Warne was posthumously appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for his service to cricket.

Early life

Warne was born in Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, on 13 September 1969, the son of Brigitte and Keith Warne.[12] His mother was German.[13][14] He attended Hampton High School from Grades 7–9 before being offered a sports scholarship to attend Mentone Grammar, where he spent his final three years of school.[15][16][17]

Early career

Warne's first representative honours came in the 1983–84 season when he represented University of Melbourne Cricket Club in the Victorian Cricket Association's under-16 Dowling Shield competition.[18] He bowled a mixture of leg-spin and off-spin, and was a handy lower-order batsman.

The following season, Warne joined St Kilda Cricket Club, which is located near his home suburb Black Rock.[19][20] He started in the lower elevens and, over a number of seasons, progressed to the first eleven. During the cricket off-season in 1987, Warne played five games of Australian rules football for St Kilda Football Club's under-19 team.[21] In 1988, Warne again played for the St Kilda Football Club's under-19 team before being promoted to the reserves team, one step below professional level.[22] Following the 1988 Victorian Football League season, St Kilda delisted Warne and he began to focus solely on cricket. In 1990, Warne was chosen to train at the Australian Cricket Academy in Adelaide.[23]

In 1991, Warne moved to the UK and joined Accrington Cricket Club of the Lancashire League as their professional player for that year's cricket season.[24] After initially struggling in English conditions, he had a good season as a bowler, taking 73 wickets at 15.4 runs each but scored only 329 runs at an average of 15. The committee at Accrington decided not to re-engage Warne for the 1992 season because they expected their professional to contribute as both a batsman and bowler.[24]

Domestic career

Warne made his first-class cricket debut on 15 February 1991,[25][26] taking 0/61 and 1/41 for Victoria against Western Australia at Junction Oval in Melbourne.[27]

Warne signed a $400,000 contract to play for Hampshire County Cricket Club in England for the 2000 season.[28] He returned to Hampshire as the captain for the seasons between 2004 and 2007. For Hampshire he scored his only two first class centuries and took 276 wickets at an average of 25.58.[29]

International career

Early international career (1991–1993)

Warne was selected for the Australia B team, which toured Zimbabwe in September 1991.[27] In the second tour match at Harare Sports Club, Warne recorded his first first-class score of five-wickets-or-more in an innings when he took 7/49 in the second innings,[30] helping Australia B to a nine-wicket win.[31]

In December 1991, upon returning to Australia, Warne took 3/14 and 4/42 for Australia A against a touring West Indian side.[27] Peter Taylor, the incumbent spinner in the Australian Test team, had taken only one wicket in the first two Tests, so Warne was brought into the team for the third Test against India at the Sydney Cricket Ground a week later.[32][33]

Warne had played in seven first-class matches before making his Test-level debut for Australia.[34] He was called into the Australian team in January 1992 for a Test against India at Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG).[34] He took 1/150 (Ravi Shastri caught by Dean Jones for 206) off 45 overs.[35][36]

Warne took 0/78 in the fourth Test in Adelaide, recording overall figures of 1/228 for the series, and was rejected for the fifth Test on the pace-friendly WACA Ground in Perth. Warne's poor form continued in the first innings against Sri Lanka at Colombo, in which he recorded 0/107.[37]

On 22 August 1992, however, Warne took the last three Sri Lankan wickets without conceding a run in the second innings, leading to a second-innings collapse and contributing to a 16-run Australian win.[38] Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga commented in an interview; "a bowler with Test average of more than 300 came and snatched the victory from our hands".[39]

Despite his match-winning spell, Warne was left out of the second Sri Lanka test before taking 0/40 in the third-and-final test of the series. Warne was again left out of the First Test against the West Indies in the 1992–93 Australian season. Greg Matthews played in Warne's place; despite Australia being in a strong position on the final day, they could not dismiss the West Indies on a turning surface. Warne was recalled for the Second Test in Melbourne, a Boxing Day Test in which he took 7/52 in a match-winning performance in the second innings.[40]

Path to 300 Test wickets (1993–1999)

In 1993, Warne was selected for Australia's Ashes tour of England, in which he was the leading wicket-taker for the six-Test series, with 34.[41] His first ball of the series was called the "Ball of the Century", bowling the experienced English batsman Mike Gatting with a ball that turned from well-outside leg stump to clip the off bail.[42] Warne took 71 Test wickets in 1993, a then-record for a spin bowler in a calendar year.[43] New Zealand batsmen significantly contributed to his tally. Early in 1993, Warne took 17 wickets in Australia's tour of New Zealand, tying Danny Morrison with 17 as the top wicket-taker for the series. When New Zealand toured Australia for three Tests in November and December, Warne took 18 wickets and was named "player of the series".[44][45][46]

Warne featured in South Africa's tour of Australia in 1993–94[47] and Australia's return tour in March 1994. In the second Test of South Africa's tour at the SCG, Warne took ten wickets in a Test for the first time in his career. His 7/56 in the first innings and 5/72 in the second was not enough to secure victory for Australia; on the Test's final day, Warne was part of an Australian batting collapse and South Africa won the Test.[48] He was named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in the 1994 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.[49]

Australia sought to retain the Ashes when England toured for a five-Test series in 1994–95. Warne took a career-best 8/71 in the second innings of the first Test at Brisbane Cricket Ground (the Gabba),[50] before taking 27 wickets in the five-Test series.[51] In the Second Test, a Boxing Day Test at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), he took his first-and-only Test hat-trick, dismissing tail-enders Phil DeFreitas, Darren Gough and Devon Malcolm in successive balls, the last of which was caught by David Boon. Warne also took his 150th test wicket, a caught-and-bowled off Alec Stewart. Warne secured the Ashes for Australia with the bat. In the Third Test at SCG, he and fellow tail-ender Tim May survived the final 19 overs in fading light on the fifth day to secure a draw and a 2–0 series lead that meant Australia would retain the Ashes regardless of the result of the fourth and fifth Tests.[52] Later in 1995, Warne toured the West Indies, taking 15 wickets in four Tests as Australia defeated the West Indies in a Test series for the first time in almost 20 years.[53]

In the southern-hemisphere summer of 1995–96, Australia played a home series against Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Warne took 11 wickets in the first Test against Pakistan but broke his toe in the second. Selectors included him in the squad for the third Test days later to give him the chance to prove his fitness. Warne took four wickets in Pakistan's first innings and another four in their second, and was named the player of the series.[54][55]

Warne was a key member of Australia's squad for the 1996 Cricket World Cup, which was held in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Warne took 12 wickets, including a man-of-the-match 4/36 in the semi-final against the West Indies, and Australia qualified for the final.[56] Before the final against Sri Lanka, Australian captain Mark Taylor publicly said Warne was not "vital" to his team and that Warne alone could not win the World Cup.[57] Warne conceded 58 runs for no wickets in the final; Australia lost the match to first-time champions Sri Lanka.[58]

The West Indies toured Australia for a five-Test series in the southern-hemisphere summer of 1996–97. Warne took 22 wickets in the series, and a further 11 in Australia's three-Test tour of South Africa in early 1997.[59] In the northern summer of 1997, Warne returned to England with the Australian team to play for the Ashes. After struggling for form early in the tour, Warne took 24 wickets at an average of 24.04 and Australia won the six-Test series 3–2.[60][61]

In the Australian summer of 1997–98, Warne took 19 wickets in New Zealand's three-Test series in Australia and 20 wickets in three Tests against South Africa,[59] in the second of which he took five wickets in the first innings and six in the second, becoming the second Australian after Dennis Lillee to take 300 Test wickets.[62][63] In late 1997, Australian media criticised Warne for his weight; however, The Australian wrote he was one of Australia's three most-influential cricketers, the others being Donald Bradman and Lillee.[64] Journalist and former English cricketer Derek Pringle said Warne passed the 300-Test-wicket mark at the age of 28; "we are in the presence of true greatness and not some pretender to the great figures in the game's history".[65]

Later in 1998, Warne was a member of Australia's touring squad of India. Finding Indian food not to his liking, he had tinned spaghetti and baked beans flown in from Australia.[66][67] Australia's two top pace bowlers Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie missed the tour due to injury so Warne bowled more often than usual. He took 10 wickets but conceding 54 runs each, going for 0/147 in India's only innings of the second-and-series-winning Test in Calcutta. Warne's dismissal of Rahul Dravid in the first innings of the final test at Bangalore took him past Lance Gibbs' tally of 309 wickets, making Warne the most-successful spin bowler in Test Cricket. Australia lost the series, breaking a run of nine Test-series wins.[68][69]

In early December 1998, the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) said three years earlier it had fined Warne and Mark Waugh for accepting money from a bookmaker for information about pitch and weather conditions; this was called the John the bookmaker controversy.[70]

After suffering a shoulder injury, Warne returned to international cricket in the fifth Test of the Ashes series in Australia in January 1999. He missed Australia's tour of Pakistan and the first four Ashes Tests.[71] During Warne's extended absence from the Australian team, his understudy Stuart MacGill played in his place, taking 15 wickets in three Tests against Pakistan and another series-high 27 wickets against England. Upon Warne's return, he and MacGill bowled in tandem to the team for the fifth Ashes Test at SCG, where MacGill took twelve wickets and Warne two.[72]

Vice-captaincy of Australia (1999–2000)

Shane Warne's record as captain
  Matches Won Lost Drawn Tied No result Win %
ODI[73] 11 10 1 0 0 0 90.91%

The 1999–2000 Ashes series was the last for Australian captain Mark Taylor, who retired. Steve Waugh was appointed as Taylor's replacement while Warne was promoted to vice-captain.[74] Warne, however, was dropped from the Test team during Australia's tour of the West Indies in early 1999. Warne took two wickets in the first three Tests of the series, leading to calls for his removal from the team from Australian media.[75] For the final test, Warne was replaced by off-spinner Colin Miller, who with MacGill took eight wickets between them and Australia won the Test to retain the Frank Worrell Trophy.[76] Warne's form recovered in the One Day International (ODI) series against the West Indies, and he was selected to play in the 1999 World Cup in the United Kingdom.[77]

Just before the start of the 1999 World Cup, the International Cricket Council (ICC) fined Warne gave him a two-match suspended ban by for talking to a newspaper about Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga, saying; "There is plenty of animosity between Arjuna and myself. I don't like him and I'm not in a club of one."[78] Australia wanted to win their first Cricket World Cup since 1987. Warne took 12 wickets in the preliminary phases of the tournament, and Australia qualified for a semi-final against South Africa. The semi-final match became notable for the dramatic fashion in which it finished; Warne was the man of the match, dismissing key South African batsmen Herschelle Gibbs, Gary Kirsten, Hansie Cronje and Jacques Kallis.[79] Australia faced Pakistan in the tournament's final. Pakistan batted first and were all out for 132; Warne took 4/33. Australia comfortably reached the target to win the World Cup. Warne was the tournament's joint-top wicket-taker with Geoff Allott, and was named the man of the match in the final.[80]

After his World Cup performances, Warne was retained as Australia's vice-captain for tours of Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe later in 1999.[76] The following Australian summer, he played in all Tests of the series against Pakistan and India. He reached his highest score with the bat in the first Test against Pakistan in Brisbane, with 86, before matching that score in the first Test against India in Adelaide the following month.[81] Warne's performances in the Brisbane Test were overshadowed by the Joe the Cameraman controversy, in which an off-field microphone picked up a jibe about the abilities of Australian bowler Scott Muller during the match. A Channel Nine cameraman subsequently confessed to making the "can't bowl, can't throw" remark many had believed was made by Warne.[82] Warne took 18 wickets over the six summer Tests and Australia won both series 3–0.[59] He then took another 15 wickets in Australia's 3–0 tour of New Zealand in March 2000.[83] In the first Test of the series at Eden Park, Auckland. Warne surpassed Dennis Lillee's 355 wickets as Australia's leading-ever wicket-taker.[84]

In 2000, Warne joined English county side Hampshire, for which he played during the year's northern-hemisphere summer. During the county season, reports Warne had repeatedly sent lewd SMS messages to an English nurse emerged. In August 2000, the ACB removed him as Australia's vice-captain, citing his history of off-field indiscretions. The board's decision was contrary to the wishes of the team's selectors, including captain Steve Waugh. Warne was replaced as vice-captain by Adam Gilchrist.[85] That year, however, the ACB awarded Warne the Men's ODI Player of the Year at the Allan Border Medal ceremony.[86]

Wickets and injuries (2001–2003)

Warne missed the entire Australian summer of 2000–01 with a finger injury; he battled Stuart MacGill and an in-form Colin Miller to be selected for Australia's tour of India in early 2001.[87] MacGill was ultimately left out of the squad. Warne took 10 wickets over the three-Test series at an average of 50.50; his Indian spin counterpart Harbhajan Singh was the man of the series after taking 32 wickets at an average of 17.03.[88] Australia lost the series 2–1.[89] In the northern summer of 2001, Warne was chosen for his third Ashes tour and took 31 wickets in the five-Test series, which Australia won 4–1.[90] He took three five-wicket hauls in the series.[91] In the final Test at The Oval, Warne took 11 wickets across both innings, including the 400th wicket of his Test career from Alec Stewart. Warne became the sixth person and the first Australian in the history of cricket to reach 400 wickets.[92]

In the 2001–02 Australian summer, Australia played home series against New Zealand and against South Africa. Warne took six wickets in three Tests against New Zealand, and in the third Test in Perth made his career's highest batting score in international cricket. He was caught at mid-wicket off the bowling of Daniel Vettori, which later revealed to be a no-ball while on 99 runs—one run short of a maiden Test century.[93] He took 17 wickets in the three Tests against South Africa—more than any other player—including a five-wicket haul (5/113) in the first innings of the first Test.[94][95] Warne, with 20 dismissals, was again the leading wicket-taker when Australia played a three-Test series in South Africa in February and March 2002.[96] In February 2002, Ricky Ponting replaced Steve Waugh as captain of Australia's ODI squad. The promotion of Ponting, who was five years younger than Warne, appeared to end any prospect of Warne ever being appointed to the captaincy of Australia.[97]

In October 2002, Australia played a three-Test series against Pakistan in neutral states Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates. Warne, who had lost weight over the previous months, took 27 wickets, was named the player of the series, and was man of the match in the first Test with 11 wickets; and the third Test with eight wickets.[98][99][100][101] He returned to Australia for the 2002 – 03 Ashes series against England, starting in November 2002. In the first Test, he scored 57 with the bat and took 11 wickets in the first three Tests of the series but suffered a shoulder injury in an ODI in December 2002.[102] The injury ruled him out of the remainder of the Ashes series and him in doubt for the World Cup, which would begin in February 2003.[103]

Ban from cricket (2003)

In February 2003, a day before the start of the World Cup, Warne was sent home after a drug test during a one-day series in Australia returned a positive result for a banned diuretic.[104] Warne said he took only one of what he called a "fluid tablet"—the prescription drug Moduretic—which his mother had given him to improve his appearance.[105] A committee established by the ACB found Warne guilty of breaching the board's drug code and imposed a one-year ban from organised cricket.[106]

After having announced he would retire from ODIs after the 2003 World Cup, Warne took the view the ban would lengthen his Test-playing career, although it led him to briefly reconsider his decision to retire from ODIs.[107] Warne was allowed to play in charity matches while serving his one-year ban, a decision that was criticised by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA),[108] which Warne criticised for interfering in the matter.[109]

During his suspension, Australia's main free-to-air cricket broadcaster Nine Network hired Warne as a television commentator.[110] During mid-2003, Warne worked for the St Kilda Football Club, an Australian rules football club, in an unpaid consultancy role after the Australian Football League (AFL) banned him from holding an official club position because of his drugs ban.[111]

Return to cricket (2004–2006)

Warne returned to competitive cricket following his ban in February 2004.[112] In March, in the first Test of a three-Test series against Sri Lanka in Galle, he became the second cricketer after Courtney Walsh to take 500 Test wickets.[113] Warne took five wickets in each innings of the first and second Tests, and a further six wickets in the third Test, and was named the player of the series.[114] on 15 October 2004, during the second Test of Australia's series against India at Chennai, he broke the record for most career wickets in Test cricket. Warne's dismissal of Irfan Pathan, who was caught at slip by Matthew Hayden, saw him overtake his Sri Lankan rival Muttiah Muralitharan with 533 wickets. Muralitharan, who was injured at the time, had taken the record from Courtney Walsh five months earlier.[115][116] Australia won the series 2–1; it was Australia's first series win in India since 1969. Warne's 14 wickets at an average of 30.07 was an improvement on his previous performances in India, when in six Tests he took 20 wickets at an average of 52 runs each.[117][118] For his performances in 2004, the ICC named him in the World Test XI.

On 11 August 2005 in the Third Ashes Test at Old Trafford, Warne became the first bowler in history to take 600 Test wickets.[119] In 2005, with 96 wickets, Warne broke the record for the number of wickets in a calendar year.[120][121] Warne's ferocious competitiveness was a feature of the 2005 Ashes series in which he took 40 wickets at an average of 19.92 and scored 249 runs.[122] Warne shared the player of the series honour with England's Andrew Flintoff. For his performances in 2005, the ICC named Warne in the World Test XI.[123]

International retirement (2006–2007)

 
Warne (right) bowling to Ian Bell at the Gabba in Brisbane in 2006

Warne began the 2006–07 Ashes series with an indifferent Test performance in Brisbane and a poor performance in the first innings in Adelaide, where he took no wickets.[124] His second-innings performance, however, including bowling Kevin Pietersen around the legs, triggered England's fifth-day collapse and Australia's win.[125] Warne again bowled well in the third Test's second innings, and took the final wicket of Monty Panesar as Australia regained the Ashes.[126]

On 21 December 2006, Warne announced he would retire at the end of the 2006–07 Ashes series at SCG. In his penultimate Test, he took his 700th Test wicket on 26 December 2006[127] by bowling out English batsman Andrew Strauss at MCG in his final appearance there. This was the first occasion a player had taken 700 Test wickets. The wicket was described as a "classic Warne dismissal", which the crowd of 89,155 gave a standing ovation.[128]

Warne's final Test was held at SCG, same venue as his first 15 years earlier. Warne ended England's first innings by trapping Monty Panesar leg before wicket for a duck and took his 1,000th international wicket. Warne's final Test wicket was that of England's all-rounder Andrew Flintoff, who was stumped by Adam Gilchrist.[129] Warne is one of only two bowlers to have taken more than 1,000 wickets in international cricket, the other being Muttiah Muralitharan.[130][131] For his performances in 2006, the ICC and Cricinfo named Warne in the World Test XI.[132] Also in 2006, the ACB—which was now renamed Cricket Australia (CA)—awarded Warne the Men's Test Player of the Year at the Allan Border Medal ceremony.[86]

Twenty20 career (2008–2013)

 
Warne bowling against the Sydney Sixers in 2011 during a Big Bash League match

After his retirement from international cricket, Warne was signed as the captain of Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2008, fetching US$450,000 in the pre-season player auction.[133] Warne led the Royals to victory in the first season of the competition.[134] He continued as captain of the Royals for a further four seasons; the 2011 season was his last with the franchise.[135][136]

 
Warne bowling at Lord's for Rajasthan Royals in a Twenty20 match against Middlesex in 2009

Warne was signed as a player for Melbourne Stars in Australia's inaugural Big Bash League (BBL) in November 2011. The Stars qualified for the semi-finals of the tournament, in which Warne took seven wickets in eight matches at an economy rate of 6.74 runs conceded per over.[137]

In 2013, Warne was fined $4500 and banned for one match for using obscene language, making "inappropriate physical contact with a player or official" Marlon Samuels and "showing serious dissent at an umpire's decision" during a BBL match against Melbourne Renegades.[138] In July 2013, Warne officially retired from all formats of cricket, confirming he would no longer captain Melbourne Stars in the BBL.[139]

In July 2014, Warne captained the Rest of the World side in the Bicentenary Celebration match at Lord's.[140] In February 2018, Rajasthan Royals appointed Warne as their team mentor for the IPL 2018.[141]

Wider influence on cricket

Warne is widely considered as one of the greatest bowlers in cricket history.[142] He revolutionised cricket with his mastery of leg spin, which many cricket followers had come to regard as a dying art due to the difficulty of accurately bowling the deliveries. Warne helped overturn the domination of cricket by fast bowling that had prevailed for twenty years before his debut. In the early 1970s, Australia's fast bowlers Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson dominated cricket. From around 1977 until the early 1990s, the West Indies lost only one ill-tempered and controversial Test series with a bowling attack almost exclusively composed of four fast bowlers. From the early 1990s, with the West Indies in decline, Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram of Pakistan were becoming the world's most-feared fast-bowling combination. In this context, Warne's bowling became significant. His dominance, particularly of English and South African batsmen, provided cricket audiences with an alternative skill.[143][144]

Many of Warne's most spectacular performances occurred in Ashes series against England; in particular, the "Gatting Ball", otherwise known as the "Ball of the Century", which drifted significantly out of the hand, pitching well outside Leg Stump and sharply spun past the front of the bat, clipping the top of Off Stump, bowling a bemused Mike Gatting in the 1993 Ashes series. Warne had struggled against India, particularly against Sachin Tendulkar; Warne's bowling average against India was 47.18 runs per wicket compared with his overall average of 25.[145] Warne also was hit for the most sixes by the time he retired; Warne said he did not like to be hit for singles because he had to plan for two batsmen at the same over.[27]

Playing style

According to Warne:

Where my ability to spin a cricket ball came from, I honestly don't know. I can only think that I was born with it. I have a skill as a cricketer ... and fortunately cricket found me.[146]

Warne combined the ability to prodigiously turn the ball, even on unhelpful pitches, with regular accuracy and a variation of deliveries—notable among these is the flipper. In the later stages of his career, variation was less evident despite regular press conferences announcing a "new" delivery for each series he participated in. When Warne retired, Australian journalist Gideon Haigh wrote: "It was said of Augustus that he found Rome brick and left it marble: the same is true of Warne and spin bowling".[147] Warne did this by having a relaxed "two-finger-up, two-down grip" of the ball and not hitting it against the top part of the palm.

Warne was a fierce and dramatic competitor. Gideon Haigh wrote about what he called Warne's pageantry and measured theatricality, including his exaggerated appeals, intimidation of batters, sledging, flirting with umpires, and time-wasting, all of which added to his competitiveness. Warne said the "part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think that something special is happening even when it isn't".[148]

Warne was an effective lower-order batter; he was once dismissed for 99 with a reckless shot on what was later shown to be a no-ball.[149] Warne has scored the most Test runs without having scored a century;[150] his top scores were 99 and 91. He also scored the third-most international Test ducks. Of players who have batted in more than 175 Test innings, Warne's proportion of dismissals by being bowled out is the lowest, at under seven per cent.[151]

Warne was a successful slip fielder; he made 125 catches—the 19th-most catches as a fielder in Test cricket history.[152]

Performance analysis

Further information: List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Shane Warne

Shane Warne was the third-highest five-wicket haul-taker in international cricket, after Muttiah Muralitharan and Richard Hadlee. He took 37 Test fivers and a single ODI fiver, along with 10 Test ten-wicket hauls.

Test matches

Versus Matches Overs Maidens Runs Wickets 5w 10w Best Avg S/R E/R
  Bangladesh 2 87.2 12 300 11 1 0 5 for 113 27.27 47.6 3.43
  England 36 1792.5 488 4535 195 11 4 8 for 71 23.25 55.1 2.52
  ICC World XI 1 31 7 71 6 0 0 3 for 23 11.83 31.0 2.29
  India 14 654.1 139 2029 43 1 0 6 for 125 47.18 91.2 3.10
  New Zealand 20 961.4 252 2511 103 3 0 6 for 31 24.37 56.0 2.61
  Pakistan 15 675.1 192 1816 90 6 2 7 for 23 20.17 45.0 2.68
  South Africa 24 1321.2 367 3142 130 7 2 7 for 56 24.16 60.9 2.37
  Sri Lanka 13 527.5 132 1507 59 5 2 5 for 43 25.54 53.6 2.85
  West Indies 19 679.4 159 1947 65 3 0 7 for 52 29.95 62.7 2.86
  Zimbabwe 1 53.1 13 137 6 0 0 3 for 68 22.83 53.1 2.57
Overall (9) 145 6784.1 1761 17995 708 37 10 8 for 71 25.41 57.4 2.65
Source: Cricinfo[153]

Test 10-wicket hauls

# Figures Match Opponent Venue City Country Year
1 12/128 22   South Africa Sydney Cricket Ground Sydney Australia 1994
2 11/110 30   England Brisbane Cricket Ground Brisbane Australia 1994
3 11/77 39   Pakistan Brisbane Cricket Ground Brisbane Australia 1995
4 12/109 63   South Africa Sydney Cricket Ground Sydney Australia 1998
5 11/229 92   England Kennington Oval London England 2001
6 11/188 102   Pakistan P Sara Oval Colombo Sri Lanka 2002
7 10/159 108   Sri Lanka Galle International Stadium Galle Sri Lanka 2004
8 10/155 109   Sri Lanka Asgiriya Stadium Kandy Sri Lanka 2004
9 10/162 125   England Edgbaston Cricket Ground Birmingham England 2005
10 12/246 128   England Kennington Oval London England 2005
Source:[154]

Career-best performances

Commentator

After his retirement, Warne became a television cricket commentator. On 13 July 2005, Nine Network announced it would not renew his commentating contract, for which he was paid around A$300,000 annually, due to incidents in his private life.[159] He rejoined Nine in 2008 and continued as a member of its commentary team until Nine lost the broadcasting rights in 2018. Warne was also signed by Sky Sports in 2009 and Fox Cricket in 2018.[160][161] He worked for both Sky and Fox until his death.[162]

Outside cricket

Warne joined Muttiah Muralitharan in humanitarian efforts to help Sri Lankans who were adversely affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.[163] His charity the Shane Warne Foundation donated AU$20,000 to help rebuild Galle International Stadium.[164][165] Warne was named in the World XI squad during the World Cricket Tsunami Appeal tournament, which was held in Melbourne on 10 January 2005 to raise funds for post-tsunami humanitarian relief efforts.[166]

Warne made a cameo appearance on the Australian sitcom Kath & Kim in 2007.[167] He also appeared on BBC Television panel game A Question of Sport, taking on the captaincy for three shows and appearing regularly.[168][169]

In January 2008, Warne signed a two-year agreement with 888poker to represent them at international poker events, including the Aussie Millions, World Series of Poker and the 888 UK Poker Open. This sponsorship agreement ended in January 2015.[170]

In 2010, Nine Network commissioned a chat show titled Warnie, which was hosted by Warne. The program debuted on 24 November 2010 with Warne interviewing James Packer.[171] Celebrities interviewed on the program included the captain of the Australian cricket team Ricky Ponting, and singers Chris Martin and Susan Boyle.[172][173] Warne also did promotional work for hair-loss-recovery company Advanced Hair; the British Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) investigated this matter in relation to an illegal celebrity endorsement of medical services.[174]

Personal life

 
Warne in 2012 with then-fiancée Elizabeth Hurley

From 1999 to 2005, Warne was married to Simone Callahan,[175] with whom he had children Summer, Jackson and Brooke.[176] In 2000, Warne lost the Australian vice-captaincy after it was discovered he was sending sexual text messages to a British nurse while still married to Callahan.[177] He was also involved in an altercation with some teenage boys who took a photograph of him smoking after he had accepted sponsorship from a nicotine patch company in return for quitting smoking.[178] In April 2007, Warne and Callahan were reported to be reuniting two years after their divorce.[179] Five months later, however, Callahan again left Warne after he inadvertently sent her a text message he had intended for another woman.[180][181]

Following his split from Callahan, Warne dated English actress Elizabeth Hurley.[182][183] Although their relationship at first seemed short-lived following the disclosure that Warne was sending sexual messages to a married Melbourne businesswoman,[184][185] the couple created a media frenzy when Hurley moved into Warne's mansion in Brighton, Victoria.[186] In late 2011, Hurley and Warne announced they were engaged,[187] but they had cancelled the engagement by December 2013.[188] Warne later said, "I was more in love with Elizabeth than I'd realised I could be. I miss the love we had. My years with Elizabeth were the happiest of my life."[189]

After retiring from cricket, Warne worked for the Shane Warne Foundation, which assisted seriously ill and underprivileged children.[190] The charity was launched in 2004 and distributed £400,000; its activities included a charity poker tournament.[190] The charity closed in 2017 after running at a financial loss for four of the five previous years. In 2014, the foundation raised $465,000 but spent $550,000.[191]

In August 2021, Warne contracted COVID-19 and was placed on a ventilator "to make sure there were no longer-lasting effects".[192] He said, "I had a thumping headache and I had one day where I had the shivers, but sweating, like when you have the flu", and that Australians would have to learn to live with the virus.[193] Warne was born with complete heterochromia, giving him a blue right eye and a green left eye.[194]

Death

On 4 March 2022, at the age of 52, Warne died of a heart attack due to atherosclerosis while holidaying on the island Ko Samui, Thailand.[195][196][197][198] Warne died on the same day as fellow Australian cricketer Rod Marsh, to whom Warne paid tribute on Twitter a few hours before his own death.[199][200] Six days after Warne's death, his body was returned from Thailand to Melbourne on a private aeroplane.[201]

Warne's private funeral took place on 20 March 2022 in Melbourne at Moorabbin Oval, the headquarters and former home ground of St Kilda Football Club. The mourners were led by Warne's parents and three children, and some former teammates were in attendance.[202] On 30 March, Warne was publicly honoured at a state memorial event at Melbourne Cricket Ground.[203][204]

Tributes

 
Warne's statue outside the MCG became a makeshift memorial to him after his death

Australian teammates Adam Gilchrist, Jason Gillespie, Matthew Hayden, Andrew Symonds, Brett Lee, Darren Lehmann, Glenn McGrath, Tom Moody, Ricky Ponting and Shane Watson, as well as Australian Test captain Pat Cummins and Australian limited-overs captain Aaron Finch remembered Warne.[205]

Outside Australia, many former and current cricketers also paid tribute, including England's Kevin Pietersen and Michael Vaughan; India's Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli; New Zealand's Brendon McCullum and Kane Williamson; Pakistan's Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis; South Africa's Graeme Smith; and West Indies' Brian Lara.[206][207] Indian commentator Harsha Bhogle also offered a tribute.[208]

To commemorate Warne, the Australian women's cricket team wore black armbands in their first 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup game against England.[209] A similar tribute was held by the Australian men's cricket team on the second day of the first Test against Pakistan, with both teams observing a minute of silence before the day's play.[210]

Celebrities, including Warne's close friend Chris Martin of Coldplay, Russell Crowe, Mick Jagger, Elton John, Ed Sheeran and Magda Szubanski, also paid their respects.[211][212][213][214][215] Warne's former fiancée Elizabeth Hurley said: "I feel like the sun has gone behind a cloud forever. RIP my beloved lionheart."[216] Fans ornamented the statue of Warne at MCG with flowers, beer, baked beans, meat pies and cigarettes.[217][218]

Warne's former Big Bash League team, the Melbourne Stars are set to pay tribute to Warne during their game against the Hobart Hurricanes. During the match, all the Stars players will be wearing Warne's number 23, and a standing ovation will take place after the 23rd ball of the game.[219] The Stars will then retire the number 23 following the game.[220]

State memorial service

Main article: Shane Warne state memorial service

Warne's state memorial service was held on the evening of 30 March 2022 at Melbourne Cricket Ground. The service, which was free to attend and ran for around 140 minutes, was attended by about 55,000 people, broadcast on multiple channels and streamed online.[221] The service was ultimately watched by more than 1.5 million Australians.[222]

The memorial was opened by Greta Bradman, Donald Bradman's granddaughter, who performed the national anthem "Advance Australia Fair"; the service included eulogies from Warne's children, his father, his brother Jason, and other family members and friends. During his eulogy, Warne's father said, "Shane said of himself, 'I smoked, I drank, and I played a little cricket'".[223][224]

It was earlier decided the Great Southern Stand at MCG was to be renamed in Warne's honour. To conclude the memorial, Warne's children unveiled the Shane Warne Stand sign with a recording of Frank Sinatra singing "My Way" playing in the background as the crowd rose and cheered.[225][226]

Awards and recognition

 
Statue of Warne at Melbourne Cricket Ground

In 2000, a panel of cricket experts chose Warne as one of five Wisden Cricketers of the Century, the only specialist bowler selected and the only one who was still playing at the time. The same publication named Warne in an all-time Test World XI[227] and he was the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World in 1997 and 2004.[228][229]

In 2004, Warne was included as part of Richie Benaud's Greatest XI, a team chosen by Richie Benaud that compares players across all teams and eras using statistics and personal testimonials. Warne was chosen as the best spin bowler of all time by both Benaud and the Australian public, with 85% of respondents in agreement.[230] In 2005, Warne was named the BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year.[231]

In 2007, Cricket Australia and Sri Lanka Cricket decided to name the Australia–Sri Lanka Test cricket series the Warne–Muralitharan Trophy in honour of Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan.[232] Also in 2007, Cricket Australia named Warne in their greatest ODI XI of all time.[233] In 2009, Warne was awarded honorary life membership of Marylebone Cricket Club.[234]

On 22 December 2011, a statue honouring Warne was unveiled outside MCG. The bronze statue was sculpted by Louis Laumen and depicts Warne during his bowling action and has an inscription highlighting his cricketing career. Warne, who was present at the sculpture's unveiling, stated: "It's a great honour, it's a bit weird seeing yourself up there but I'm very proud."[235][236][237]

In 2012, a grandstand at the Rose Bowl, where Warne played county cricket for Hampshire, was named the Shane Warne Stand.[238] In 2012, he was also inducted into the Cricket Hall of Fame by Cricket Australia.[239] In 2013, Warne was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.[240] In a fan poll conducted by the Cricketers' Almanack in 2017, Warne was named in Australia's best Ashes XI of the previous 40 years.[241]

In June 2022, on the Queen's Birthday Honours list, Warne was posthumously appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for his service to cricket and philanthropic contributions.[242][243] In December 2022, Warne was elevated to a Legend in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.[244]

In popular culture

In September 2022 it was reported that Australia's Nine Network had begun work on Warnie, a two-part biopic about Warne's life, within weeks of his death, describing the film as a fitting tribute. But friends and family of Warne described the project as insensitive and urged the broadcaster to scrap the film, feeling it was too soon after his death to make a film.[245]

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Sources

  • My Illustrated Career by Shane Warne (Cassell Illustrated, 2006) ISBN 1-84403-543-3
  • Shane Warne's Century – My Top 100 Cricketers by Shane Warne (Mainstream Publishing, 2008)

External links

 
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Awards and achievements
Preceded by Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World
2005 		Succeeded by
Preceded by BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year
2005 		Succeeded by
Sporting positions
Preceded by Hampshire cricket captain
2004–2007 		Succeeded by
Records
Preceded by Most career wickets in Test cricket
708 wickets (25.41) in 141 Tests
Held record 15 October 2004 to 3 December 2007 		Succeeded by

February 22, 2023
shane, warne, shane, keith, warne, september, 1969, march, 2022, australian, international, cricketer, whose, career, from, 1991, 2007, warne, played, right, spin, bowler, right, handed, batsman, victoria, hampshire, australia, greatest, bowlers, history, spor. Shane Keith Warne AO 13 September 1969 4 March 2022 was an Australian international cricketer whose career ran from 1991 to 2007 Warne played as a right arm leg spin bowler and a right handed batsman for Victoria Hampshire and Australia He is one of the greatest bowlers in the history of the sport he made 145 Test appearances taking 708 wickets and set the record for the most wickets taken by any bowler in Test cricket a record he held until 2007 Shane WarneAOWarne in 2015Personal informationFull nameShane Keith WarneBorn 1969 09 13 13 September 1969Upper Ferntree Gully Victoria AustraliaDied4 March 2022 2022 03 04 aged 52 Ko Samui ThailandNicknameWarnie 1 Height1 83 m 6 ft 0 in BattingRight handedBowlingRight arm leg breakRoleBowlerInternational informationNational sideAustralia 1992 2007 Test debut cap 350 2 January 1992 v IndiaLast Test2 January 2007 v EnglandODI debut cap 110 24 March 1993 v New ZealandLast ODI10 January 2005 v Asia XIODI shirt no 23Domestic team informationYearsTeam1990 91 2006 07Victoria squad no 23 2000 2007Hampshire squad no 23 2008 2012Rajasthan Royals squad no 23 2011 12 2012 13Melbourne Stars squad no 23 Career statisticsCompetition Test ODI FC LAMatches 145 194 301 311Runs scored 3 154 1 018 6 919 1 879Batting average 17 32 13 05 19 43 11 81100s 50s 0 12 0 1 2 26 0 1Top score 99 55 107 55Balls bowled 40 705 10 642 74 830 16 419Wickets 708 293 1 319 473Bowling average 25 41 25 73 26 11 24 615 wickets in innings 37 1 69 310 wickets in match 10 0 12 0Best bowling 8 71 5 33 8 71 6 42Catches stumpings 125 80 264 126 Source ESPNcricinfo 29 March 2008Warne was a useful lower order batsman who scored more than 3 000 Test runs with a highest score of 99 He retired from international cricket at the end of Australia s 2006 07 Ashes series victory over England In the first four seasons of the Indian Premier League IPL Warne was a player coach for Rajasthan Royals and also captained the team During his career Warne was involved in off field scandals his censures included a ban from cricket for testing positive for a prohibited substance and charges of sexual indiscretions and bringing the game into disrepute Warnie was a loved figure globally with a huge following in every cricket nation Alongside Warnie 2 his other nicknames and phrases of endearment included The King 3 Baron of Baked Beans 4 Suicide 5 The Sheikh of Tweak 6 Hollywood 7 The King of Spin 8 The Earl of Twirl 9 The Murali of Melbourne 10 and Twistie 11 Warne revolutionised cricket thinking with his mastery of leg spin then regarded as a dying art After retirement he regularly worked as a cricket commentator and for charities and endorsed commercial products In recognition of his skill a statue of Warne bowling was placed outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground MCG where he was also honoured with a state memorial service as well as having a grandstand named in his honour Warne was posthumously appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia AO for his service to cricket Contents 1 Early life 2 Early career 3 Domestic career 4 International career 4 1 Early international career 1991 1993 4 2 Path to 300 Test wickets 1993 1999 4 3 Vice captaincy of Australia 1999 2000 4 4 Wickets and injuries 2001 2003 4 5 Ban from cricket 2003 4 6 Return to cricket 2004 2006 4 7 International retirement 2006 2007 5 Twenty20 career 2008 2013 6 Wider influence on cricket 7 Playing style 8 Performance analysis 8 1 Test matches 8 1 1 Test 10 wicket hauls 8 2 Career best performances 9 Commentator 10 Outside cricket 11 Personal life 12 Death 12 1 Tributes 12 2 State memorial service 13 Awards and recognition 14 In popular culture 15 References 15 1 Sources 16 External linksEarly life EditWarne was born in Upper Ferntree Gully Victoria a suburb of Melbourne on 13 September 1969 the son of Brigitte and Keith Warne 12 His mother was German 13 14 He attended Hampton High School from Grades 7 9 before being offered a sports scholarship to attend Mentone Grammar where he spent his final three years of school 15 16 17 Early career EditWarne s first representative honours came in the 1983 84 season when he represented University of Melbourne Cricket Club in the Victorian Cricket Association s under 16 Dowling Shield competition 18 He bowled a mixture of leg spin and off spin and was a handy lower order batsman The following season Warne joined St Kilda Cricket Club which is located near his home suburb Black Rock 19 20 He started in the lower elevens and over a number of seasons progressed to the first eleven During the cricket off season in 1987 Warne played five games of Australian rules football for St Kilda Football Club s under 19 team 21 In 1988 Warne again played for the St Kilda Football Club s under 19 team before being promoted to the reserves team one step below professional level 22 Following the 1988 Victorian Football League season St Kilda delisted Warne and he began to focus solely on cricket In 1990 Warne was chosen to train at the Australian Cricket Academy in Adelaide 23 In 1991 Warne moved to the UK and joined Accrington Cricket Club of the Lancashire League as their professional player for that year s cricket season 24 After initially struggling in English conditions he had a good season as a bowler taking 73 wickets at 15 4 runs each but scored only 329 runs at an average of 15 The committee at Accrington decided not to re engage Warne for the 1992 season because they expected their professional to contribute as both a batsman and bowler 24 Domestic career EditWarne made his first class cricket debut on 15 February 1991 25 26 taking 0 61 and 1 41 for Victoria against Western Australia at Junction Oval in Melbourne 27 Warne signed a 400 000 contract to play for Hampshire County Cricket Club in England for the 2000 season 28 He returned to Hampshire as the captain for the seasons between 2004 and 2007 For Hampshire he scored his only two first class centuries and took 276 wickets at an average of 25 58 29 International career EditEarly international career 1991 1993 Edit Warne was selected for the Australia B team which toured Zimbabwe in September 1991 27 In the second tour match at Harare Sports Club Warne recorded his first first class score of five wickets or more in an innings when he took 7 49 in the second innings 30 helping Australia B to a nine wicket win 31 In December 1991 upon returning to Australia Warne took 3 14 and 4 42 for Australia A against a touring West Indian side 27 Peter Taylor the incumbent spinner in the Australian Test team had taken only one wicket in the first two Tests so Warne was brought into the team for the third Test against India at the Sydney Cricket Ground a week later 32 33 Warne had played in seven first class matches before making his Test level debut for Australia 34 He was called into the Australian team in January 1992 for a Test against India at Sydney Cricket Ground SCG 34 He took 1 150 Ravi Shastri caught by Dean Jones for 206 off 45 overs 35 36 Warne took 0 78 in the fourth Test in Adelaide recording overall figures of 1 228 for the series and was rejected for the fifth Test on the pace friendly WACA Ground in Perth Warne s poor form continued in the first innings against Sri Lanka at Colombo in which he recorded 0 107 37 On 22 August 1992 however Warne took the last three Sri Lankan wickets without conceding a run in the second innings leading to a second innings collapse and contributing to a 16 run Australian win 38 Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga commented in an interview a bowler with Test average of more than 300 came and snatched the victory from our hands 39 Despite his match winning spell Warne was left out of the second Sri Lanka test before taking 0 40 in the third and final test of the series Warne was again left out of the First Test against the West Indies in the 1992 93 Australian season Greg Matthews played in Warne s place despite Australia being in a strong position on the final day they could not dismiss the West Indies on a turning surface Warne was recalled for the Second Test in Melbourne a Boxing Day Test in which he took 7 52 in a match winning performance in the second innings 40 Path to 300 Test wickets 1993 1999 Edit In 1993 Warne was selected for Australia s Ashes tour of England in which he was the leading wicket taker for the six Test series with 34 41 His first ball of the series was called the Ball of the Century bowling the experienced English batsman Mike Gatting with a ball that turned from well outside leg stump to clip the off bail 42 Warne took 71 Test wickets in 1993 a then record for a spin bowler in a calendar year 43 New Zealand batsmen significantly contributed to his tally Early in 1993 Warne took 17 wickets in Australia s tour of New Zealand tying Danny Morrison with 17 as the top wicket taker for the series When New Zealand toured Australia for three Tests in November and December Warne took 18 wickets and was named player of the series 44 45 46 Warne featured in South Africa s tour of Australia in 1993 94 47 and Australia s return tour in March 1994 In the second Test of South Africa s tour at the SCG Warne took ten wickets in a Test for the first time in his career His 7 56 in the first innings and 5 72 in the second was not enough to secure victory for Australia on the Test s final day Warne was part of an Australian batting collapse and South Africa won the Test 48 He was named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in the 1994 Wisden Cricketers Almanack 49 Australia sought to retain the Ashes when England toured for a five Test series in 1994 95 Warne took a career best 8 71 in the second innings of the first Test at Brisbane Cricket Ground the Gabba 50 before taking 27 wickets in the five Test series 51 In the Second Test a Boxing Day Test at Melbourne Cricket Ground MCG he took his first and only Test hat trick dismissing tail enders Phil DeFreitas Darren Gough and Devon Malcolm in successive balls the last of which was caught by David Boon Warne also took his 150th test wicket a caught and bowled off Alec Stewart Warne secured the Ashes for Australia with the bat In the Third Test at SCG he and fellow tail ender Tim May survived the final 19 overs in fading light on the fifth day to secure a draw and a 2 0 series lead that meant Australia would retain the Ashes regardless of the result of the fourth and fifth Tests 52 Later in 1995 Warne toured the West Indies taking 15 wickets in four Tests as Australia defeated the West Indies in a Test series for the first time in almost 20 years 53 In the southern hemisphere summer of 1995 96 Australia played a home series against Pakistan and Sri Lanka Warne took 11 wickets in the first Test against Pakistan but broke his toe in the second Selectors included him in the squad for the third Test days later to give him the chance to prove his fitness Warne took four wickets in Pakistan s first innings and another four in their second and was named the player of the series 54 55 Warne was a key member of Australia s squad for the 1996 Cricket World Cup which was held in India Pakistan and Sri Lanka Warne took 12 wickets including a man of the match 4 36 in the semi final against the West Indies and Australia qualified for the final 56 Before the final against Sri Lanka Australian captain Mark Taylor publicly said Warne was not vital to his team and that Warne alone could not win the World Cup 57 Warne conceded 58 runs for no wickets in the final Australia lost the match to first time champions Sri Lanka 58 The West Indies toured Australia for a five Test series in the southern hemisphere summer of 1996 97 Warne took 22 wickets in the series and a further 11 in Australia s three Test tour of South Africa in early 1997 59 In the northern summer of 1997 Warne returned to England with the Australian team to play for the Ashes After struggling for form early in the tour Warne took 24 wickets at an average of 24 04 and Australia won the six Test series 3 2 60 61 In the Australian summer of 1997 98 Warne took 19 wickets in New Zealand s three Test series in Australia and 20 wickets in three Tests against South Africa 59 in the second of which he took five wickets in the first innings and six in the second becoming the second Australian after Dennis Lillee to take 300 Test wickets 62 63 In late 1997 Australian media criticised Warne for his weight however The Australian wrote he was one of Australia s three most influential cricketers the others being Donald Bradman and Lillee 64 Journalist and former English cricketer Derek Pringle said Warne passed the 300 Test wicket mark at the age of 28 we are in the presence of true greatness and not some pretender to the great figures in the game s history 65 Later in 1998 Warne was a member of Australia s touring squad of India Finding Indian food not to his liking he had tinned spaghetti and baked beans flown in from Australia 66 67 Australia s two top pace bowlers Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie missed the tour due to injury so Warne bowled more often than usual He took 10 wickets but conceding 54 runs each going for 0 147 in India s only innings of the second and series winning Test in Calcutta Warne s dismissal of Rahul Dravid in the first innings of the final test at Bangalore took him past Lance Gibbs tally of 309 wickets making Warne the most successful spin bowler in Test Cricket Australia lost the series breaking a run of nine Test series wins 68 69 In early December 1998 the Australian Cricket Board ACB said three years earlier it had fined Warne and Mark Waugh for accepting money from a bookmaker for information about pitch and weather conditions this was called the John the bookmaker controversy 70 After suffering a shoulder injury Warne returned to international cricket in the fifth Test of the Ashes series in Australia in January 1999 He missed Australia s tour of Pakistan and the first four Ashes Tests 71 During Warne s extended absence from the Australian team his understudy Stuart MacGill played in his place taking 15 wickets in three Tests against Pakistan and another series high 27 wickets against England Upon Warne s return he and MacGill bowled in tandem to the team for the fifth Ashes Test at SCG where MacGill took twelve wickets and Warne two 72 Vice captaincy of Australia 1999 2000 Edit Shane Warne s record as captain Matches Won Lost Drawn Tied No result Win ODI 73 11 10 1 0 0 0 90 91 The 1999 2000 Ashes series was the last for Australian captain Mark Taylor who retired Steve Waugh was appointed as Taylor s replacement while Warne was promoted to vice captain 74 Warne however was dropped from the Test team during Australia s tour of the West Indies in early 1999 Warne took two wickets in the first three Tests of the series leading to calls for his removal from the team from Australian media 75 For the final test Warne was replaced by off spinner Colin Miller who with MacGill took eight wickets between them and Australia won the Test to retain the Frank Worrell Trophy 76 Warne s form recovered in the One Day International ODI series against the West Indies and he was selected to play in the 1999 World Cup in the United Kingdom 77 Just before the start of the 1999 World Cup the International Cricket Council ICC fined Warne gave him a two match suspended ban by for talking to a newspaper about Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga saying There is plenty of animosity between Arjuna and myself I don t like him and I m not in a club of one 78 Australia wanted to win their first Cricket World Cup since 1987 Warne took 12 wickets in the preliminary phases of the tournament and Australia qualified for a semi final against South Africa The semi final match became notable for the dramatic fashion in which it finished Warne was the man of the match dismissing key South African batsmen Herschelle Gibbs Gary Kirsten Hansie Cronje and Jacques Kallis 79 Australia faced Pakistan in the tournament s final Pakistan batted first and were all out for 132 Warne took 4 33 Australia comfortably reached the target to win the World Cup Warne was the tournament s joint top wicket taker with Geoff Allott and was named the man of the match in the final 80 After his World Cup performances Warne was retained as Australia s vice captain for tours of Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe later in 1999 76 The following Australian summer he played in all Tests of the series against Pakistan and India He reached his highest score with the bat in the first Test against Pakistan in Brisbane with 86 before matching that score in the first Test against India in Adelaide the following month 81 Warne s performances in the Brisbane Test were overshadowed by the Joe the Cameraman controversy in which an off field microphone picked up a jibe about the abilities of Australian bowler Scott Muller during the match A Channel Nine cameraman subsequently confessed to making the can t bowl can t throw remark many had believed was made by Warne 82 Warne took 18 wickets over the six summer Tests and Australia won both series 3 0 59 He then took another 15 wickets in Australia s 3 0 tour of New Zealand in March 2000 83 In the first Test of the series at Eden Park Auckland Warne surpassed Dennis Lillee s 355 wickets as Australia s leading ever wicket taker 84 In 2000 Warne joined English county side Hampshire for which he played during the year s northern hemisphere summer During the county season reports Warne had repeatedly sent lewd SMS messages to an English nurse emerged In August 2000 the ACB removed him as Australia s vice captain citing his history of off field indiscretions The board s decision was contrary to the wishes of the team s selectors including captain Steve Waugh Warne was replaced as vice captain by Adam Gilchrist 85 That year however the ACB awarded Warne the Men s ODI Player of the Year at the Allan Border Medal ceremony 86 Wickets and injuries 2001 2003 Edit Warne missed the entire Australian summer of 2000 01 with a finger injury he battled Stuart MacGill and an in form Colin Miller to be selected for Australia s tour of India in early 2001 87 MacGill was ultimately left out of the squad Warne took 10 wickets over the three Test series at an average of 50 50 his Indian spin counterpart Harbhajan Singh was the man of the series after taking 32 wickets at an average of 17 03 88 Australia lost the series 2 1 89 In the northern summer of 2001 Warne was chosen for his third Ashes tour and took 31 wickets in the five Test series which Australia won 4 1 90 He took three five wicket hauls in the series 91 In the final Test at The Oval Warne took 11 wickets across both innings including the 400th wicket of his Test career from Alec Stewart Warne became the sixth person and the first Australian in the history of cricket to reach 400 wickets 92 In the 2001 02 Australian summer Australia played home series against New Zealand and against South Africa Warne took six wickets in three Tests against New Zealand and in the third Test in Perth made his career s highest batting score in international cricket He was caught at mid wicket off the bowling of Daniel Vettori which later revealed to be a no ball while on 99 runs one run short of a maiden Test century 93 He took 17 wickets in the three Tests against South Africa more than any other player including a five wicket haul 5 113 in the first innings of the first Test 94 95 Warne with 20 dismissals was again the leading wicket taker when Australia played a three Test series in South Africa in February and March 2002 96 In February 2002 Ricky Ponting replaced Steve Waugh as captain of Australia s ODI squad The promotion of Ponting who was five years younger than Warne appeared to end any prospect of Warne ever being appointed to the captaincy of Australia 97 In October 2002 Australia played a three Test series against Pakistan in neutral states Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates Warne who had lost weight over the previous months took 27 wickets was named the player of the series and was man of the match in the first Test with 11 wickets and the third Test with eight wickets 98 99 100 101 He returned to Australia for the 2002 03 Ashes series against England starting in November 2002 In the first Test he scored 57 with the bat and took 11 wickets in the first three Tests of the series but suffered a shoulder injury in an ODI in December 2002 102 The injury ruled him out of the remainder of the Ashes series and him in doubt for the World Cup which would begin in February 2003 103 Ban from cricket 2003 Edit In February 2003 a day before the start of the World Cup Warne was sent home after a drug test during a one day series in Australia returned a positive result for a banned diuretic 104 Warne said he took only one of what he called a fluid tablet the prescription drug Moduretic which his mother had given him to improve his appearance 105 A committee established by the ACB found Warne guilty of breaching the board s drug code and imposed a one year ban from organised cricket 106 After having announced he would retire from ODIs after the 2003 World Cup Warne took the view the ban would lengthen his Test playing career although it led him to briefly reconsider his decision to retire from ODIs 107 Warne was allowed to play in charity matches while serving his one year ban a decision that was criticised by the World Anti Doping Agency WADA 108 which Warne criticised for interfering in the matter 109 During his suspension Australia s main free to air cricket broadcaster Nine Network hired Warne as a television commentator 110 During mid 2003 Warne worked for the St Kilda Football Club an Australian rules football club in an unpaid consultancy role after the Australian Football League AFL banned him from holding an official club position because of his drugs ban 111 Return to cricket 2004 2006 Edit Warne returned to competitive cricket following his ban in February 2004 112 In March in the first Test of a three Test series against Sri Lanka in Galle he became the second cricketer after Courtney Walsh to take 500 Test wickets 113 Warne took five wickets in each innings of the first and second Tests and a further six wickets in the third Test and was named the player of the series 114 on 15 October 2004 during the second Test of Australia s series against India at Chennai he broke the record for most career wickets in Test cricket Warne s dismissal of Irfan Pathan who was caught at slip by Matthew Hayden saw him overtake his Sri Lankan rival Muttiah Muralitharan with 533 wickets Muralitharan who was injured at the time had taken the record from Courtney Walsh five months earlier 115 116 Australia won the series 2 1 it was Australia s first series win in India since 1969 Warne s 14 wickets at an average of 30 07 was an improvement on his previous performances in India when in six Tests he took 20 wickets at an average of 52 runs each 117 118 For his performances in 2004 the ICC named him in the World Test XI On 11 August 2005 in the Third Ashes Test at Old Trafford Warne became the first bowler in history to take 600 Test wickets 119 In 2005 with 96 wickets Warne broke the record for the number of wickets in a calendar year 120 121 Warne s ferocious competitiveness was a feature of the 2005 Ashes series in which he took 40 wickets at an average of 19 92 and scored 249 runs 122 Warne shared the player of the series honour with England s Andrew Flintoff For his performances in 2005 the ICC named Warne in the World Test XI 123 International retirement 2006 2007 Edit Warne right bowling to Ian Bell at the Gabba in Brisbane in 2006 Warne began the 2006 07 Ashes series with an indifferent Test performance in Brisbane and a poor performance in the first innings in Adelaide where he took no wickets 124 His second innings performance however including bowling Kevin Pietersen around the legs triggered England s fifth day collapse and Australia s win 125 Warne again bowled well in the third Test s second innings and took the final wicket of Monty Panesar as Australia regained the Ashes 126 On 21 December 2006 Warne announced he would retire at the end of the 2006 07 Ashes series at SCG In his penultimate Test he took his 700th Test wicket on 26 December 2006 127 by bowling out English batsman Andrew Strauss at MCG in his final appearance there This was the first occasion a player had taken 700 Test wickets The wicket was described as a classic Warne dismissal which the crowd of 89 155 gave a standing ovation 128 Warne s final Test was held at SCG same venue as his first 15 years earlier Warne ended England s first innings by trapping Monty Panesar leg before wicket for a duck and took his 1 000th international wicket Warne s final Test wicket was that of England s all rounder Andrew Flintoff who was stumped by Adam Gilchrist 129 Warne is one of only two bowlers to have taken more than 1 000 wickets in international cricket the other being Muttiah Muralitharan 130 131 For his performances in 2006 the ICC and Cricinfo named Warne in the World Test XI 132 Also in 2006 the ACB which was now renamed Cricket Australia CA awarded Warne the Men s Test Player of the Year at the Allan Border Medal ceremony 86 Twenty20 career 2008 2013 Edit Warne bowling against the Sydney Sixers in 2011 during a Big Bash League match After his retirement from international cricket Warne was signed as the captain of Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League IPL 2008 fetching US 450 000 in the pre season player auction 133 Warne led the Royals to victory in the first season of the competition 134 He continued as captain of the Royals for a further four seasons the 2011 season was his last with the franchise 135 136 Warne bowling at Lord s for Rajasthan Royals in a Twenty20 match against Middlesex in 2009 Warne was signed as a player for Melbourne Stars in Australia s inaugural Big Bash League BBL in November 2011 The Stars qualified for the semi finals of the tournament in which Warne took seven wickets in eight matches at an economy rate of 6 74 runs conceded per over 137 In 2013 Warne was fined 4500 and banned for one match for using obscene language making inappropriate physical contact with a player or official Marlon Samuels and showing serious dissent at an umpire s decision during a BBL match against Melbourne Renegades 138 In July 2013 Warne officially retired from all formats of cricket confirming he would no longer captain Melbourne Stars in the BBL 139 In July 2014 Warne captained the Rest of the World side in the Bicentenary Celebration match at Lord s 140 In February 2018 Rajasthan Royals appointed Warne as their team mentor for the IPL 2018 141 Wider influence on cricket EditWarne is widely considered as one of the greatest bowlers in cricket history 142 He revolutionised cricket with his mastery of leg spin which many cricket followers had come to regard as a dying art due to the difficulty of accurately bowling the deliveries Warne helped overturn the domination of cricket by fast bowling that had prevailed for twenty years before his debut In the early 1970s Australia s fast bowlers Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson dominated cricket From around 1977 until the early 1990s the West Indies lost only one ill tempered and controversial Test series with a bowling attack almost exclusively composed of four fast bowlers From the early 1990s with the West Indies in decline Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram of Pakistan were becoming the world s most feared fast bowling combination In this context Warne s bowling became significant His dominance particularly of English and South African batsmen provided cricket audiences with an alternative skill 143 144 Many of Warne s most spectacular performances occurred in Ashes series against England in particular the Gatting Ball otherwise known as the Ball of the Century which drifted significantly out of the hand pitching well outside Leg Stump and sharply spun past the front of the bat clipping the top of Off Stump bowling a bemused Mike Gatting in the 1993 Ashes series Warne had struggled against India particularly against Sachin Tendulkar Warne s bowling average against India was 47 18 runs per wicket compared with his overall average of 25 145 Warne also was hit for the most sixes by the time he retired Warne said he did not like to be hit for singles because he had to plan for two batsmen at the same over 27 Playing style EditAccording to Warne Where my ability to spin a cricket ball came from I honestly don t know I can only think that I was born with it I have a skill as a cricketer and fortunately cricket found me 146 Warne combined the ability to prodigiously turn the ball even on unhelpful pitches with regular accuracy and a variation of deliveries notable among these is the flipper In the later stages of his career variation was less evident despite regular press conferences announcing a new delivery for each series he participated in When Warne retired Australian journalist Gideon Haigh wrote It was said of Augustus that he found Rome brick and left it marble the same is true of Warne and spin bowling 147 Warne did this by having a relaxed two finger up two down grip of the ball and not hitting it against the top part of the palm Warne was a fierce and dramatic competitor Gideon Haigh wrote about what he called Warne s pageantry and measured theatricality including his exaggerated appeals intimidation of batters sledging flirting with umpires and time wasting all of which added to his competitiveness Warne said the part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think that something special is happening even when it isn t 148 Warne was an effective lower order batter he was once dismissed for 99 with a reckless shot on what was later shown to be a no ball 149 Warne has scored the most Test runs without having scored a century 150 his top scores were 99 and 91 He also scored the third most international Test ducks Of players who have batted in more than 175 Test innings Warne s proportion of dismissals by being bowled out is the lowest at under seven per cent 151 Warne was a successful slip fielder he made 125 catches the 19th most catches as a fielder in Test cricket history 152 Performance analysis EditFurther information List of international cricket five wicket hauls by Shane Warne Shane Warne was the third highest five wicket haul taker in international cricket after Muttiah Muralitharan and Richard Hadlee He took 37 Test fivers and a single ODI fiver along with 10 Test ten wicket hauls Test matches Edit Versus Matches Overs Maidens Runs Wickets 5w 10w Best Avg S R E R Bangladesh 2 87 2 12 300 11 1 0 5 for 113 27 27 47 6 3 43 England 36 1792 5 488 4535 195 11 4 8 for 71 23 25 55 1 2 52 ICC World XI 1 31 7 71 6 0 0 3 for 23 11 83 31 0 2 29 India 14 654 1 139 2029 43 1 0 6 for 125 47 18 91 2 3 10 New Zealand 20 961 4 252 2511 103 3 0 6 for 31 24 37 56 0 2 61 Pakistan 15 675 1 192 1816 90 6 2 7 for 23 20 17 45 0 2 68 South Africa 24 1321 2 367 3142 130 7 2 7 for 56 24 16 60 9 2 37 Sri Lanka 13 527 5 132 1507 59 5 2 5 for 43 25 54 53 6 2 85 West Indies 19 679 4 159 1947 65 3 0 7 for 52 29 95 62 7 2 86 Zimbabwe 1 53 1 13 137 6 0 0 3 for 68 22 83 53 1 2 57Overall 9 145 6784 1 1761 17995 708 37 10 8 for 71 25 41 57 4 2 65Source Cricinfo 153 Test 10 wicket hauls Edit Figures Match Opponent Venue City Country Year1 12 128 22 South Africa Sydney Cricket Ground Sydney Australia 19942 11 110 30 England Brisbane Cricket Ground Brisbane Australia 19943 11 77 39 Pakistan Brisbane Cricket Ground Brisbane Australia 19954 12 109 63 South Africa Sydney Cricket Ground Sydney Australia 19985 11 229 92 England Kennington Oval London England 20016 11 188 102 Pakistan P Sara Oval Colombo Sri Lanka 20027 10 159 108 Sri Lanka Galle International Stadium Galle Sri Lanka 20048 10 155 109 Sri Lanka Asgiriya Stadium Kandy Sri Lanka 20049 10 162 125 England Edgbaston Cricket Ground Birmingham England 200510 12 246 128 England Kennington Oval London England 2005Source 154 Career best performances Edit BowlingScore Fixture Venue SeasonTest 8 71 Australia v England Gabba Brisbane 1994 155 ODI 5 33 Australia v West Indies SCG Sydney 1996 156 FC 8 71 Australia v England Gabba Brisbane 1994 155 LA 6 42 Surrey v Hampshire Whitgift School Croydon 2006 157 T20 4 21 Deccan Chargers v Rajasthan Royals Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium Jamtha Nagpur 2010 158 Commentator EditAfter his retirement Warne became a television cricket commentator On 13 July 2005 Nine Network announced it would not renew his commentating contract for which he was paid around A 300 000 annually due to incidents in his private life 159 He rejoined Nine in 2008 and continued as a member of its commentary team until Nine lost the broadcasting rights in 2018 Warne was also signed by Sky Sports in 2009 and Fox Cricket in 2018 160 161 He worked for both Sky and Fox until his death 162 Outside cricket EditWarne joined Muttiah Muralitharan in humanitarian efforts to help Sri Lankans who were adversely affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami 163 His charity the Shane Warne Foundation donated AU 20 000 to help rebuild Galle International Stadium 164 165 Warne was named in the World XI squad during the World Cricket Tsunami Appeal tournament which was held in Melbourne on 10 January 2005 to raise funds for post tsunami humanitarian relief efforts 166 Warne made a cameo appearance on the Australian sitcom Kath amp Kim in 2007 167 He also appeared on BBC Television panel game A Question of Sport taking on the captaincy for three shows and appearing regularly 168 169 In January 2008 Warne signed a two year agreement with 888poker to represent them at international poker events including the Aussie Millions World Series of Poker and the 888 UK Poker Open This sponsorship agreement ended in January 2015 170 In 2010 Nine Network commissioned a chat show titled Warnie which was hosted by Warne The program debuted on 24 November 2010 with Warne interviewing James Packer 171 Celebrities interviewed on the program included the captain of the Australian cricket team Ricky Ponting and singers Chris Martin and Susan Boyle 172 173 Warne also did promotional work for hair loss recovery company Advanced Hair the British Advertising Standards Authority ASA investigated this matter in relation to an illegal celebrity endorsement of medical services 174 Personal life Edit Warne in 2012 with then fiancee Elizabeth Hurley From 1999 to 2005 Warne was married to Simone Callahan 175 with whom he had children Summer Jackson and Brooke 176 In 2000 Warne lost the Australian vice captaincy after it was discovered he was sending sexual text messages to a British nurse while still married to Callahan 177 He was also involved in an altercation with some teenage boys who took a photograph of him smoking after he had accepted sponsorship from a nicotine patch company in return for quitting smoking 178 In April 2007 Warne and Callahan were reported to be reuniting two years after their divorce 179 Five months later however Callahan again left Warne after he inadvertently sent her a text message he had intended for another woman 180 181 Following his split from Callahan Warne dated English actress Elizabeth Hurley 182 183 Although their relationship at first seemed short lived following the disclosure that Warne was sending sexual messages to a married Melbourne businesswoman 184 185 the couple created a media frenzy when Hurley moved into Warne s mansion in Brighton Victoria 186 In late 2011 Hurley and Warne announced they were engaged 187 but they had cancelled the engagement by December 2013 188 Warne later said I was more in love with Elizabeth than I d realised I could be I miss the love we had My years with Elizabeth were the happiest of my life 189 After retiring from cricket Warne worked for the Shane Warne Foundation which assisted seriously ill and underprivileged children 190 The charity was launched in 2004 and distributed 400 000 its activities included a charity poker tournament 190 The charity closed in 2017 after running at a financial loss for four of the five previous years In 2014 the foundation raised 465 000 but spent 550 000 191 In August 2021 Warne contracted COVID 19 and was placed on a ventilator to make sure there were no longer lasting effects 192 He said I had a thumping headache and I had one day where I had the shivers but sweating like when you have the flu and that Australians would have to learn to live with the virus 193 Warne was born with complete heterochromia giving him a blue right eye and a green left eye 194 Death EditOn 4 March 2022 at the age of 52 Warne died of a heart attack due to atherosclerosis while holidaying on the island Ko Samui Thailand 195 196 197 198 Warne died on the same day as fellow Australian cricketer Rod Marsh to whom Warne paid tribute on Twitter a few hours before his own death 199 200 Six days after Warne s death his body was returned from Thailand to Melbourne on a private aeroplane 201 Warne s private funeral took place on 20 March 2022 in Melbourne at Moorabbin Oval the headquarters and former home ground of St Kilda Football Club The mourners were led by Warne s parents and three children and some former teammates were in attendance 202 On 30 March Warne was publicly honoured at a state memorial event at Melbourne Cricket Ground 203 204 Tributes Edit Warne s statue outside the MCG became a makeshift memorial to him after his death Australian teammates Adam Gilchrist Jason Gillespie Matthew Hayden Andrew Symonds Brett Lee Darren Lehmann Glenn McGrath Tom Moody Ricky Ponting and Shane Watson as well as Australian Test captain Pat Cummins and Australian limited overs captain Aaron Finch remembered Warne 205 Outside Australia many former and current cricketers also paid tribute including England s Kevin Pietersen and Michael Vaughan India s Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli New Zealand s Brendon McCullum and Kane Williamson Pakistan s Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis South Africa s Graeme Smith and West Indies Brian Lara 206 207 Indian commentator Harsha Bhogle also offered a tribute 208 To commemorate Warne the Australian women s cricket team wore black armbands in their first 2022 Women s Cricket World Cup game against England 209 A similar tribute was held by the Australian men s cricket team on the second day of the first Test against Pakistan with both teams observing a minute of silence before the day s play 210 Celebrities including Warne s close friend Chris Martin of Coldplay Russell Crowe Mick Jagger Elton John Ed Sheeran and Magda Szubanski also paid their respects 211 212 213 214 215 Warne s former fiancee Elizabeth Hurley said I feel like the sun has gone behind a cloud forever RIP my beloved lionheart 216 Fans ornamented the statue of Warne at MCG with flowers beer baked beans meat pies and cigarettes 217 218 Warne s former Big Bash League team the Melbourne Stars are set to pay tribute to Warne during their game against the Hobart Hurricanes During the match all the Stars players will be wearing Warne s number 23 and a standing ovation will take place after the 23rd ball of the game 219 The Stars will then retire the number 23 following the game 220 State memorial service Edit Main article Shane Warne state memorial service Warne s state memorial service was held on the evening of 30 March 2022 at Melbourne Cricket Ground The service which was free to attend and ran for around 140 minutes was attended by about 55 000 people broadcast on multiple channels and streamed online 221 The service was ultimately watched by more than 1 5 million Australians 222 The memorial was opened by Greta Bradman Donald Bradman s granddaughter who performed the national anthem Advance Australia Fair the service included eulogies from Warne s children his father his brother Jason and other family members and friends During his eulogy Warne s father said Shane said of himself I smoked I drank and I played a little cricket 223 224 It was earlier decided the Great Southern Stand at MCG was to be renamed in Warne s honour To conclude the memorial Warne s children unveiled the Shane Warne Stand sign with a recording of Frank Sinatra singing My Way playing in the background as the crowd rose and cheered 225 226 Awards and recognition Edit Statue of Warne at Melbourne Cricket Ground In 2000 a panel of cricket experts chose Warne as one of five Wisden Cricketers of the Century the only specialist bowler selected and the only one who was still playing at the time The same publication named Warne in an all time Test World XI 227 and he was the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World in 1997 and 2004 228 229 In 2004 Warne was included as part of Richie Benaud s Greatest XI a team chosen by Richie Benaud that compares players across all teams and eras using statistics and personal testimonials Warne was chosen as the best spin bowler of all time by both Benaud and the Australian public with 85 of respondents in agreement 230 In 2005 Warne was named the BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year 231 In 2007 Cricket Australia and Sri Lanka Cricket decided to name the Australia Sri Lanka Test cricket series the Warne Muralitharan Trophy in honour of Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan 232 Also in 2007 Cricket Australia named Warne in their greatest ODI XI of all time 233 In 2009 Warne was awarded honorary life membership of Marylebone Cricket Club 234 On 22 December 2011 a statue honouring Warne was unveiled outside MCG The bronze statue was sculpted by Louis Laumen and depicts Warne during his bowling action and has an inscription highlighting his cricketing career Warne who was present at the sculpture s unveiling stated It s a great honour it s a bit weird seeing yourself up there but I m very proud 235 236 237 In 2012 a grandstand at the Rose Bowl where Warne played county cricket for Hampshire was named the Shane Warne Stand 238 In 2012 he was also inducted into the Cricket Hall of Fame by Cricket Australia 239 In 2013 Warne was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame 240 In a fan poll conducted by the Cricketers Almanack in 2017 Warne was named in Australia s best Ashes XI of the previous 40 years 241 In June 2022 on the Queen s Birthday Honours list Warne was posthumously appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia AO for his service to cricket and philanthropic contributions 242 243 In December 2022 Warne was elevated to a Legend in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame 244 In popular culture EditIn September 2022 it was reported that Australia s Nine Network had begun work on Warnie a two part biopic about Warne s life within weeks of his death describing the film as a fitting tribute But friends and family of Warne described the project as insensitive and urged the broadcaster to scrap the film feeling it was too soon after his 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