It was Boxing Day morning; the next Ashes test would start at the MCG in a short while. Shane Warne sat alone in the dressing room – he had announced retirement at the Series’ end. He looked around, wondering about the seventeen years that he played the game. It was a fantastic ride: he smiled to himself thinking, “Wow, that was fun.”
Who wouldn’t agree? It was fun having this guy around, enthralling us with the magic of his fingertips. In his autobiography ‘No Spin,’ Shane Warne takes us through his cricketing days, his follies and foibles, likes and dislikes, dreams and disappointments. His life has been much written about, but to hear it from the horse’s mouth is what lures the reader to this book.
In a world of macho super fast bowlers, Warne stood out; and what a way to do it – over seven hundred wickets, ninety test-match wins, a few thousand runs, scores of catches. Records are meant to be broken, Muralitharan eventually overtook him, but we will ever remember the passion that he brought to the game.
Between Ravi Shastri and Andrew Flintoff, Shane Warne scalped 708 victims, competing with a battery of big-time bowlers. He got hit by some – like Tendulkar and Lara – but none could let his guard down when Warney was bowling.
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