Shane Warne fan shock horror outrage
Melbourne cricket fans denied two days' unbridled adulation of Shane Warne as Test finishes early. Film at 11.
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Melbourne cricket fans denied two days' unbridled adulation of Shane Warne as Test finishes early. Film at 11.
Dates and venues for the Shane Warne Final Farewell Tour have been announced through till September 2007, and can be viewed at a glance on the Hampshire section of the CricInfo website.
Tour dates for 2008 will be released towards the end of November next year. Tickets from the usual outlets. Be there!
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The crowd erupts. The Waltz King is beaten by a glorious leggie.
Good King Glenn McGrath looked out
On the Feast of Stephen
Where the pitch lay round about
Just a bit uneven
Brightly shone Shane Warne that night
Though the Poms were cruel
Then A Flintoff came in sight
Batting like a foo-oo-el.
Well I'll be.
I really thought he was going to stay on for the 2009 Ashes. What we will now see is a SCG dead-rubber which plays second fiddle to Warnie's swan-song in the manner of Steve Waugh 2004.
Here's the SMH report broken just a few minutes ago.
I wonder if Cricket Australia will give him a gold watch, or maybe a gold mobile phone...
Has Australia blown its best chance of regaining the Ashes?
I'm serious.
Honestly, what was the point of batting on just long enough on Sunday morning to allow Justin Langer to get his hundred? Apart from allowing Ricky to strain his back while taking a run and thus keeping him off the field for the rest of the day... and possibly for the Second Test.
It all makes sense, you know...
Shane, you may be, as you told the world in 1998, "naive and stupid", but we're not. Even if that is all there is to the remark, how utterly dopey was it to use the word "Blackman" to a black South African opponent in any context?
Warne should have been disciplined for disrepute for the sheer insensivity of the remark, and it reflects poorly on all those in the Australian camp who condoned it.
Anyway, take a look at this article in the Sunday Herald Sun for a startling revelation about the real Dickie Knee.
Thank goodness for the wellbeing of the Australian media that Shane Warne is back on our shores. After all, Aussie politics has been so darn boring over the last couple of weeks...
Warne, who unlike his Hampshire team-mate Kevin Pietersen is a respectable father of three, flew back into Melbourne early this morning. Here's a three-minute MP3 report on Warne's press conference at Tullamarine Airport from the ABC's AM program (the first few seconds sound like the product of sloppy editing).
Shane's Shame: Married Aussie cricket ace begged me for sex, but it was OWZAT! in seconds
(Mike Duffy/Sunday Mirror, 19.6.05)