Shane Warne Cricket

Shane Warne Cricket AO (13 September 1969 – 4 March 2022) was an Australian international cricketer whose career ran from 1992 to 2007.

Warne played as a right-arm leg spin bowler and a right-handed batsman for Victoria, Hampshire and Australia.

Considered to be 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.

Warne was a member of the Australian team that won the 1999 Cricket World Cup.

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 to victory in the inaugural season.

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.

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 – Shane Warne Cricket

Warne was born in Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, on 13 September 1969, the son of Brigitte and Keith Warne.^[2] His mother was German.^[3][4] 

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.^[5][6][7]

Early career – Shane Warne Cricket

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.^[8] 

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.^[9][10] 

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.^[11] 

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.^[12] 

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.^[13]

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