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Full name Shane Keith Warne
Born September 13, 1969, Ferntree Gully, Victoria
Current age 35 years 303 days
Major teams ICC World XI, Australia, Hampshire, Victoria
Nickname Warney
Playing role Bowler
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak googly
Height 1.83 m
class mat inns no runs hs ave bf sr 100 50 4s 6s ct
st
Tests 123 169 15 2518 99 16.35 4535 55.52 0 10 275 29 107 0
ODIs 194 107 29 1018 55 13.05 1413 72.04 0 1 60 13 80 0
First-class 243 330 41 5388 107* 18.64 2 20 204 0
List A 282 178 35 1704 55 11.91 0 1 113 0
Twenty-20 2 2 0 12 12 6.00 14 85.71 0 0 0 0
class mat balls runs wkts bbi bbm ave econ sr 4 5 10
Tests 123 34438 14878 583 8/71 12/128 25.51 2.59 59.07 38 29 8
ODIs 194 10642 7541 293 5/33 5/33 25.73 4.25 36.32 12 1 0
First-class 243 60900 27315 1054 8/71 25.91 2.69 57.77 50 8
List A 282 15070 10610 426 5/33 5/33 24.90 4.22 35.37 18 2 0
Twenty-20 2 48 51 1 1/29 1/29 51.00 6.37 48.00 0 0 0
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Test debut Australia v India at Sydney - Jan 2-6, 1992 scorecard
Last Test New Zealand v Australia at Auckland - Mar 26-29, 2005
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ODI debut New Zealand v Australia at Wellington - Mar 24, 1993
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Last ODI ACC Asian XI v ICC World XI at Melbourne - Jan 10, 2005
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First-class span 1990/91 - 2005
List A span 1991/92 - 2005
Twenty-20 span 2004 - 2005
Notes : Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1994
Selected as one of five Wisden cricketers of the century, 2000
At first there were nerves and chubbiness. Then came
wild soaring legbreaks, followed by fame and flippers. For a long
while there were women, then a bookmaker, then diet pills, then more
women - and headlines, always headlines. Now he has come out the
other end, his bluff and bluster and mischief and innocence somehow
intact. The man who in 2000 was rated among the five greatest
cricketers of the 20th century was, in 2004, bowling better than
ever.
When Shane Warne likened his life to a soap opera he was selling
himself short. His story is part fairytale, part pantomime, part
hospital drama, part adult's-only romp, part glittering awards
ceremony. He has taken a Test hat-trick, won the Man-of-the-Match
prize in a World Cup final and been the subject of seven books. He
was the first spinner to reach 500 Test wickets. He has swatted more
runs than any other Test player without making a hundred, and is
probably the wiliest captain Australia never had. His ball that
gazoodled Mike Gatting in 1993, bouncing outside leg stump and
cuffing off, is unanimously esteemed the most famous in history. He
revived legspin, thought to be extinct, and is now pre-eminent in a
game so transformed that we sometimes wonder where the next champion
fast bowlers will come from.
For all that, Warne's greatest feat is perhaps his latest. Returning
from a one-year hiatus for swallowing forbidden diuretics, he swept
aside 26 Sri Lankan batsmen in three Tests. Nowadays he is helped by
his stockpile of straight balls: a zooter, slider, toppie and
back-spinner, one that drifts in, one that slopes out, and another
that doesn't budge. Yet he seldom gets his wrong'un right and rarely
lands his flipper. More than ever he relies on his two oldest
friends: excruciating accuracy and an exquisite legbreak. Except
that he now controls the degree of spin - and mixes it - at will.
Like the great classical painters, he has stumbled upon the art of
simplicity. His bowling has never been simpler, nor more effective,
nor lovelier to look at.
Maybe, as with Posh Spice or Kylie Minogue, Warne is more famous
than he is loved. Maybe we don't fully appreciate his genius; maybe,
like Bradman's, it will become ever more apparent with the passing
of decades. One thing's for sure, though. We'll weep when he's gone |
