Shane Warne Biography

Shane Keith Warne (born thirteen September 1969) is an Australian former international cricketer, widely seemed as one of the pleasant bowlers in the records of the game. He became named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in the 1994 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. He changed into the Wisden Leading Cricketer within the World 1997 (Notional Winner). He was named Wisden Leading Cricketer inside the World for the year 2004 in 2005 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. In 2000, he become decided on through a panel of cricket specialists as one of the 5 Wisden Cricketers of the Century, the only professional bowler decided on within the quintet and the only one nonetheless gambling on the time. He is likewise a cricket commentator and a pro poker participant. He officially retired from all formats in July 2013.

Warne performed his first Test in shape in 1992, and took over a thousand global wickets (in Tests and One-Day Internationals), 2d to this milestone after Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan. Warne's 708 Test wickets was the record for the maximum wickets taken by means of any bowler in Test cricket, until it changed into also broken by Muralitharan on three December 2007. A beneficial decrease-order batsman, Warne also scored over 3000 Test runs, and he holds the report for maximum Test runs with out a century. His profession turned into plagued by scandals off the sector; those included a ban from cricket for testing positive for a prohibited substance, expenses of bringing the game into disrepute by way of accepting cash from bookmakers, and sexual indiscretions.

As nicely as the Australian National Cricket Team, he additionally played Australian home cricket for his home nation of Victoria, and English domestic cricket for Hampshire. He turned into captain of Hampshire for three seasons, from 2005 to 2007.

He retired from worldwide cricket in January 2007, on the cease of Australia's five–zero Ashes series victory over England. Three different players imperative to the Australian crew at the time, Glenn McGrath, Damien Martyn and Justin Langer, also retired from Tests at the same time which led some, consisting of the Australian captain, Ricky Ponting, to declare it the "cease of an generation".

Following his retirement from international cricket, Warne played a full season at Hampshire in 2007. He were scheduled to seem inside the 2008 English cricket season, but in overdue March 2008 he announced his retirement from gambling exceptional cricket so that you can be capable of spend more time pursuing pursuits outside of cricket. In March 2008, Warne signed to play inside the Indian Premier League for the Jaipur team, Rajasthan Royals within the first version of the match, wherein he performed the jobs of both captain and teach. He led his crew to victory against the Chennai Super Kings in a cliffhanger of a final in shape on 1 June 2008.

Early worldwide profession (1992–1993)

Warne had an undistinguished Test debut whilst called into the Australian team in January 1992 for a Test towards India at the Sydney Cricket Ground. He took 1/one hundred fifty (Ravi Shastri caught by means of Dean Jones for 206) off 45 overs. He took 0/seventy eight inside the fourth Test in Adelaide, recording overall figures of one/228 for the series, and turned into dropped for the 5th Test at the tempo-friendly WACA Ground in Perth. His negative form endured inside the first innings in opposition to Sri Lanka at Colombo, wherein he recorded zero/107. However, on 22 August 1992, he took the remaining three Sri Lankan wickets without conceding a run within the 2d innings prompted the hosts' second innings crumble and contributed to a first-rate 16-run Australian win. On this occasion, Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga once stated in an interview that a bowler with Test common of greater than 300 got here and snatched the victory from our fingers.

However, Warne's performances in the final Tests in Sri Lanka were now not to the delight of the selectors, and he become dropped for the First Test in opposition to the West Indies in the 1992–ninety three Australian season. Greg Matthews performed in Warne's vicinity and no matter Australia being in a sturdy function on the very last day, turned into not able to push aside the travelers on a turning floor. Warne turned into as a result recalled for the Second Test in Melbourne, a Boxing Day Test, where he took 7/fifty two in a suit-triumphing performance in the second innings

International retirement (2006–2007)

Warne started his 2006/07 Ashes campaign with an indifferent Test in Brisbane and a poor first innings showing in Adelaide. However, his second innings performance, which includes bowling Kevin Pietersen across the legs, induced England's 5th-day crumble and Australia's victory. Warne again bowled properly within the 2nd innings in the third Test, and took the final wicket of Monty Panesar as Australia regained the Ashes.

On 21 December 2006 Warne announced his retirement, which got here into effect after the 5th Ashes Test healthy at the SCG. Warne stated that it was his intention to "exit on pinnacle", adding that he would possibly have retired after the 2005 Ashes series, had Australia won. In his 2nd-closing Test, he took his 700th Test wicket at 3.18 pm on 26 December 2006[83] (AEST) by using bowling English batsman Andrew Strauss out at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, in what turned into nearly certainly his final look at the ground. This become the primary event that a player had taken seven-hundred Test wickets. The wicket changed into described as a "classic Warne dismissal" to which the gang of 89,a hundred and fifty five gave a standing ovation.

Warne's final Test become held on the identical venue as his first, 15 years earlier: the Sydney Cricket Ground. Warne ended England's first innings with the aid of trapping Monty Panesar lbw for a duck and his 1000th total worldwide wicket. His very last Test wicket was that of all-rounder Andrew Flintoff, stumped by way of Adam Gilchrist.

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