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    Shane Keith Warne AO (13 September 1969 – 4 March 2022), nicknamed Warnie, was an Australian international cricketer whose career ran from 1992 to 2007. Widely considered to be one of the greatest cricketers of all time, Warne played as a right-arm leg spin bowler and a lower-order right-handed batsman for Victoria , Hampshire , the Melbourne ...

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  2. Mar 4, 2022 · Australian cricket commentator. Comfortably history's best leg-spinner, arguably history's best bowler and surpassed only by Sir Donald Bradman as Australia's greatest cricketer, Shane Keith...

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  3. May 11, 2024 · Shane Warne, Australian cricketer who was one of the most effective bowlers in history, with good disguise on his top-spinner and fine control on two or three different googlies. In 2006 he became the first bowler to take 700 Test wickets. Learn more about Warne in this article.

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    Shane Keith Warne was born on September 13, 1969, in Upper Ferntree Gully, but the Melbourne bayside suburbs of Hampton, Black Rock and Brighton were those Warne considered his home. He was the first son of Brigitte and Keith and an older brother to Jason. Warne came from no notable cricketing stock. His German-born mother was not steeped in the ga...

    Still, even the captaincy of Mentone's first XI and his early forays into Melbourne district cricket did not suggest a superstar. Nor did his arrival home from a cricketing gap year in England's Lancashire League, on which he piled on so much weight that his parents barely recognised him at airport pick-up time. Warne was 20 when he debuted in the ...

    The Ashes tour of 1993 is rightly regarded as ground zero for the cult of Warne, but there were two previous performances that signalled Australia's spin project might come off. The first came on a largely forgotten tour of Sri Lanka the year before, when Warne confronted the likelihood of being written off and tossed into obscurity. His 0-107 in t...

    The statistics don't go close to telling the story of the career, but they remain compelling: 708 Test wickets at 25.71, 293 at the same cost in one-day internationals and a similar average in first-class, List A and T20 ranks. Wherever Warne went, he took wickets. When a game was on the line, he was the man his captain looked to. His fame, bridgin...

    The difficulty now is processing the many conflicting emotions engendered by Warne. Like few cricket champions before, he was adored for what he did on the field and lampooned for what he did, and said, off it. Public opinion of him turned most dramatically on the public persona he fashioned in his post-playing years — a hybrid of Hugh Hefner, Warw...

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  5. Mar 4, 2022 · Getty Images. Shane Warne moved into broadcasting after retiring from Test cricket in 2007. Legendary Australia leg-spinner Shane Warne, one of the greatest cricketers of all time, has died...

  6. Mar 4, 2022 · 4 March 2022. Getty Images. Warne died on the Thai island of Koh Samui on Friday. Shane Warne's death, aged 52, following a suspected heart attack has shocked the sporting world. As cricket...

  7. Mar 4, 2022 · March 4, 2022. Shane Warne, one of the greatest cricket players of all time, and a larger-than-life figure on and off the field, died Friday in Thailand. He was 52. The cause was suspected to...

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