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| Full name Shane | Shane Keith Warne | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 13 September 1969 Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 4 March 2022 (aged 52) Ko Samui, Thailand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Warnie, The King | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm leg break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 350) | 2 January 1992 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 2 January 2007 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 110) | 24 March 1993 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 10 January 2005 v Asia XI | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI shirt no. | 23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1990/91–2006/07 | Victoria (squad no. 23) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2000–2007 | Hampshire (squad no. 23) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2011 | Rajasthan Royals (squad no. 23) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011/12–2012/13 | Melbourne Stars (squad no. 23) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 29 March 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shane Warne, born on September 13, 1969at Ferntree Gully in the State of Victoria and died on March 4, 2022, is an Australian international cricketer A specialist in legleg-spine is generally cited as one of the best practitioners of this technique in history.
In 2000, a panel of experts selected by the Wisden Cricketers' Almanac named him
one of the five best players of the 20th century.
He played his first test match with the Australian national team in 1992 despite his lack of top-level experience at that time. He retired from international duty at the start of 2007 after 145 games played at this level. He then holds the world record for the number of wickets taken by a pitcher in this form of play, 708. He is also the first player to have crossed the threshold of 600 and 700 wickets in test matches.
In One-day International (ODI), his career
with the national team spanned from 1993 to 2003 and
he was part of the squad ththe at won the 1999 World Cup He
has captained eleven times in this format. His career was cut short
when he tested positive for a diuretic just
before the 2003 World Cup , eceiving a one-year suspension.
In cthe lub, Shane Warne plays with the Victoria
team in Australia from 1991 to 2006 and,
in Englnd , for the Hampshire County Cricket
Club from 2000 to 2007 and of
which he is a time captain. After his international retirement, he
participated in the first four seasons of the Indian
Premier League (IPL), from 2008 to 2011,
with the Rajasthan Royal , of which he simultaneously coached.
In addition to his suspension for doping, his career is studded
with various controversies, while his private life is widely covered by the tabloid
press. The subject of several biographies, he is also the subject of
a comedy musical Shane Warne: The Musical which addresses major events in his public and private life.
Childhood
and Education
Warne was born in 1969 to a mother of German descent and an
Australian father in a suburb of Melbourne. In his youth h,e
played Australian football alongside cricket
and went to high school at Mentone Grammar in Melbourne , where
he focused primarily on the sport. To finish his schooling, he transferred
to the Australian Cricket Academy in Adelaide,
where he was advised to leave the Academy because of his attitude towards
fitness and nutrition. However, he was then able to catch himself
and went to England in the summer of 1991, where he played for Accrington in
the Lancashire League.
Active
career
Promotion to the national team
After serving in England, he was called up to Australia's B team for a tour to Zimbabwe in September, where he worked his way up to the A team. Back in Australia ,he made his first-class debut for Victoria . After just four games in the Sheffield Shield , he was called up for the national team. His completed his first test on the tour against India in January 1992.
In August of that year he was in Sri Lanka in the second innings of the first test, the first loss to the Sri Lankan team prevent as he scored three crucial wickets for 11 runs. In doing so, he established himself in the team and faced the West Indies in December . Here he took 7 wickets for 52 runs in the second innings of the second Test, for which he was awarded Player of the Match.
A tour to New Zealand followed
. Here he was named Player of the Match in the first Test when he took a
total of seven wickets (3/23 and 4/63). In the third test of the
series he was able to reach 4 wickets for 8 runs again. He also
completed his first One-Day International on the tour .
"Ball of the Century"
In the summer of 1993 he traveled to England for his first Ashes tour . In his 11 tests so far he had scored 31 runs and thus had a promising but not outstanding start to his career. Old Trafford Cricket Ground , site of the first Test, was considered friendly to spin bowlers, but leg breaks were by this time considered a traditional style of bowling.
In the warm-up
games he was instructed to hold back so as not to give the English players an
insight into his skills. When he went bowling for the first time, he
stood up to established Mike Gatting opposite to. He
barely took a run-up, pitching the ball far outside the usual line, but it had
so much spin that it turned in front of the batter and hit the stumps. In
the remainder of the game he took seven more wickets (4/51 and 4/86) and was
awarded Player of the Match in the win. The ball was dubbed the
"Ball of the Century" and made it famous around the world. He
also managed 8 wickets in the second Test of the series (4/57 and 4/102) and
scored his first five-for in the fifth Test with 5 wickets for 82 runs.
The 1993–94 season began with a tour against New Zealand . In the first Test he was able to score 9 wickets (3/36 and 6/31). In the third test of the series, in addition to 8 wickets (4/66 and 4/59) with 78* runs, he was also able to reach his first half-century, for which he was awarded player of the game and of the series.
In the subsequent Three Nations Tournament
, he was able to score 4 wickets twice (4/25 and
4/19) against New Zealand , where he was named Player of the Match in
both games. A tour against South Africa
followed, taking 7 wickets for 56 runs in the first innings and 5
wickets for 72 runs in the second test in the second test, but this was not
enough to win. He was also successful in the remaining game and the
immediately following tour of South Africa . Among
other things, he scored 4 wickets for 36 runs in the third ODI in South Africa
and his only ODI half-century in the sixth with 55 runs. The
season ended in the Austral-Asia Cup in the United Arab Emirates, where he
recorded 4 wickets for 34 runs against New Zealand.
Winning the first world championship
In the 1994–95 season he started in a three-nation tournament in Pakistan , where he recorded 4 wickets for 40 runs against South Africa . In the parallel Test series against the Pakistani team , he was awarded Player of the Match in the first game after 8 wickets (3/61 and 5/89). In the third test he was able to achieve another 9 wickets (6/136 and 3/104). This was followed by the Ashes series against England in which he scored 8 wickets for 71 runs in the second in the first Test after 3 wickets (3/39) in the first innings and was awarded Player of the Match.
In the second test he was able to reach 9 wickets again (6/64 and 3/16). Australia also won a match alongside the two to secure the series 3–1 and thus defend the Ashes. At the start of the 1995/96 season against Pakistan in the first test, he recorded t wickets for 23 runs in the first innings and secured an innings win with four more wickets (4/54) in the second, for which he was awarded a player of the match. In the second game, he broke his toe on the first day and was thus out of action. In the third game he was able to score eight wickets (4/55 and 4/66) again and was named Player of the Series.
In the spring of 1996 he played his first World Cup, the 1996 Cricket World Cup .
In
the preliminary round he scored 4 wickets for 34 runs against Zimbabwe
and was awarded player of the match. He did the same in
the semifinals against the West Indies when he secured a place in the final
with 4 wickets for 36 runs. In the final, he then lost with the team
against Sri Lanka.
In the 1996/97 season he scored his only five-for in ODI cricket in a domestic three-nation tournament against the West Indies with 5 wickets for 33 runs. Against Pakistan he then managed to score 4 wickets twice (4/52 and 4/37). The following summer at the Tour of England he managed 9 wickets in the third Test (6/48 and 3/63) and 7 again in the fifth Test (4/86 and 3/43). He started the 1997/98 season with a five-for (5/88) in the third Test of the tour against New Zealand .
In the ensuing tour against South Africa , he recorded 11 wickets (5/75 and 6/34) in the second Test to secure an innings win as Player of the Match. In April 1998, at a three-nation tournament in India , he injured his shoulder and required surgery, missing the summer and the Ashes series. In December 1998, a betting scandal emerged after he passed information to an Indian bookmaker at a tournament in Sri Lanka in 1994 . He didn't come back until January 1999 and found it difficult at first.
In the summer he contested the 1999 Cricket World Cup.
In the preliminary round and Super Six round he had only
moderate success. Nonetheless, the team qualified for the semi-finals
where they met South Africa. Australia were in danger of losing the game,
but Warne's 4 wickets for 29 runs, for which he was named Player of the Match,
resulted in a tie and qualification for the final. There they met
Pakistan, against whom he took 4 wickets for 33 runs and made the title
possible. Here, too, he was awarded player of the game.
World Cup doping scandal
At the end of the summer in Sri Lanka he scored 5 wickets for 52 runs in the first test. He also had a five-for (5/110) in the second test against Pakistan in November 1999. He had also scored a half-century in the first test with 86 runs. In the ensuing tour against India , he again scored 86 runs in the first Test, as well as 4 wickets 92 runs in the first innings. From the 2000 season he was part of the Hampshire County Cricket Club team in the County Championship .
In October 2000 he suffered a finger injury and required surgery. Back from the break he had to contend with teammates Colin Miller and Stuart MacGill who were challenging him for his place on the team. He was nominated for the tour in India , but could not convince.
In a three-nation tournament in February 2001, he recorded 4 wickets for 48 runs against the West Indies. In the summer of 2001 he took part in the Ashes tour in England part. In the first (5/71 and 3/29) and third Tests (2/37 and 6/33) he took 8 wickets each and was named Player of the Match in the third. He received another Player of the Match award in the fifth Test when he recorded 11 wickets (7/165 and 4/64). In November against New Zealand , he scored two half-centuries (70 and 99 runs). In the subsequent tour against South Africa , he scored a five-for (5/113) in the first Test and was named Player of the Match. He did this with 6 wickets for 161 runs in the second test on the subsequent tour in South Africa.
In October 2002 he traveled with the team to Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates for a friendly series against Pakistan .
In
the first game he was awarded Player of the Match for 11 wickets (7/94 and
4/94). He then took 8 wickets in the second (4/11 and 4/13) and
third Tests (5/74 and 3/56). At the Ashes
Tour 2002/03 he was able to reach a Half-Century over 57 runs in the first
game. He was selected for the 2003 Cricket World Cupnominated,
but shortly before the start of the tournament it became known that he had
tested positive for an illegal diet, which could also be used to mask other
doping substances. He was then banned for a year.
End of career
In March 2004 he was back on the team for the Sri Lanka tour . In the first two Tests he scored 10 wickets each (5/116 & 5/43 and 5/65 & 5/90). In October 2004 on the tour of India he achieved a fife-for over 6 wickets for 125 runs in the first Test. He did another (5/39) in the first Test in New Zealand in March 2005. In the second Test he was able to achieve a half-century over 50* runs. He completed his final ODI in January 2005 at the World Cricket Tsunami Appeal , a benefit match for the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake .
In the Ashe's tour in the summer of 2005 he was able to score 10 wickets (4/116 and 6/46) in the second test. In the third he reached a half-century over 90 runs. In the fifth Test, he then scored 6 wickets twice (6/122 and 6/124) and was named Player of the Series. The 2005–06 season began with a tour against the West Indies , during which he scored two five-for (5/48 and 6/80). At the end of the season he was able to achieve a five-for in South Africa (6/86) and Bangladesh (5/113). His last tour was Ashes Tour 2006/07, at which he announced his retirement on December 22, 2006 before the final two Tests.
In the
first of the games he took 7 wickets (5/39 and 2/46) for which he was awarded
Player of the Match. In his last test he was able to reach a
half-century over 71 runs again.
After retiring from international cricket, he signed with the Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League , with whom he won the first edition .
In
May 2011 he announced that he no longer wanted to play in India. He
then signed for the Melbourne Stars in Australia's Big
Bash League , where he played until the 2012–13 season.
Technique
As a leg spinner, Warne played one of the more complicated techniques of the game that was considered traditional alongside the popular fast bowling early in his career. Unlike other players who have mastered this technique, he managed to make the movement seem simple. So instead of a run-up, he chose a slow pace. Also, the bowling motion didn't require him to stretch his arm as much as other players do.
Furthermore, he was characterized by a very flexible wrist. Different bowling variants (like top spinner or googly) require different wrist positions when releasing the ball, which is associated with varying points of release relative to the body for most players. This then allows batters to classify the balls early and react accordingly. Warne managed to avoid this by correcting his wrist positions and making it difficult for his opponents.
In general, his bowling
movement was described as elegant because, unlike other players with this
technique, it did not lead to faltering movements. This was made possible
by an unusually strong shoulder, arm and wrist. His balls were also
characterized by a very high level of consistency and precision. During
the career he also developed his demeanor on the field and became known for
psychologically pressuring his opponents as well. He publicly
announced several times before important tours that he had developed a new
variation of his bowling, gave them new names and used the media to unsettle
batters even before the first ball was played.
Influence
on cricket
Warne had risen to worldwide prominence in a short space of time
after the 1993 Ashes. He was an important part of the Australia team that
dominated international cricket in the 1990s and early 2000s, whether at the
World Cups or the Ashes series against England. He succeeded in
making spin bowling, which at the beginning of his career was clearly inferior
to fast bowling, popular again. His confident and outgoing demeanor made
him very popular with the media, and his scandals helped him get a lot of
exposure there.
After
active career
At the end of his career, he took on commentator roles on
several TV stations, but primarily on the Nine Network . In
spring 2016, among other shows, he was a participant in the Australian reality
show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! .
Personal
In 1995 he married Simone Callahan, with whom he had three
children. They split in 2005 after numerous public scandals. They got
back together in 2009 but broke up the following year. He then
became engaged to British model Elizabeth Hurley . Warne
was engaged to her for three years; In 2013 the couple separated.
Warne died on March 4, 2022 after a suspected heart
attack in Thailand. The
Australian and Victoria state governments offered the family a state
funeral.
Performance analysis
He is the third-highest five-wicket haul taker
in the international arena 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
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Versus |
Matches |
Overs |
Maidens |
Runs |
Wickets |
5w |
10w |
Best |
Avg |
S/R |
E/R |
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Bangladesh |
2 |
87.2 |
12 |
300 |
11 |
1 |
0 |
5 for 113 |
27.27 |
47.6 |
3.43 |
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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 |
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Source: Cricinfo |
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Test 10-Wicket hauls
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# |
Figures |
Match |
Opponent |
Venue |
City |
Country |
Year |
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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 |
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Career-best performances
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Bowling |
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Score |
Fixture |
Venue |
Season |
|
|
Test |
8/71 |
Australia v England |
Gabba, Brisbane |
1994 |
|
ODI |
5/33 |
Australia v West Indies |
SCG, Sydney |
1996 |
|
FC |
8/71 |
Australia v England |
Gabba, Brisbane |
1994 |
|
LA |
6/42 |
Surrey v Hampshire |
Whitgift School, Croydon |
2006 |
|
T20 |
4/21 |
Deccan Chargers v Rajasthan
Royals |
Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Jamtha, Nagpur |
2010 |
Awards and Honors
In 2000 , the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack commissioned 100 cricketers to vote for the five best cricketers of the 20th century . With twenty-seven votes, Shane Warne is one of the five elected, and is thus designated Wisden Cricketer of the Century , with Sir Donald Bradman (one hundred votes out of a possible hundred), Sir Garfield Sobers (ninety votes), Sir Jack Hobbs (thirty votes) and Sir Vivian Richards (twenty-five votes). He is the only pitcher among the five chosen.
Warne was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1994 . The award follows the Australian team's 1993 tour of England , during which he notably managed to take 34 wickets in the Ashes , including the 'Ball of the Century' , which represents the best total that year in that competition. He was named Wisden's Leading Cricketer in the World of the Year 2004 in 2005 , the second year the award was given.
In 2005 , the year he took ninety-six wickets, he was voted the BBC 's Foreign Sports Personality of the Year. Andrew Flintoff meanwhile is Sportsman of the Year and the England cricket team is Team of the Year. Warne is the third non- British cricketer to be so honoured, after Garfield Sobers and Brian Lara. He receives One-day International 's Australian Player of the Year awardsin 2000 and Australian Test Cricketer of the Year in 2006 , but was never awarded the Allan Border.
He was voted 'man of the match' seventeen times in Test cricket . He is the third player who has received the most this award awarded in a common way since the 1980s. In One-day International , Warne has been similarly rewarded twelve times. He was notably distinguished in both the semi-finals and the final of the 1999 World Cup. He was voted "man of the series" eight times in Test series, including twice in the Ashes , in 1993 and 2005 , and twice in ODI series, in the Benson and Hedges World Series Cup.
- Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World 1993 , retrospectively
- Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1994
- South African Cricket Annual Cricketers of the Year 1994
- Indian Cricket Cricketers of the Year 1996
- Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World 1997 , retrospectively
- Wisden Cricketer of the Century , awarded 2000
- One-day International Player of the Year (Australia) 2000
- Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World 2004 , awarded 2005
- Test Player of the Year (Australia) 2006
- BBC Sport Personality of the Year Overseas Personality 2005
