Shane Warne was an Australian cricketer who was a right-arm leg spinner. He played for the Australian national team from 1992 until 2007. In 2000, he was selected by a panel of cricket experts as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Century, the only specialist bowler selected in the quintet and the only one still playing at the time. He played his first Test match in 1992 and took more than 1,000 wickets in Tests and One Day Internationals (ODIs). He retired from international cricket in January 2007 at the end of Australia’s 5–0 Ashes series victory over England. He played domestic cricket for his home state of Victoria and English domestic cricket for Hampshire. Also, he was captain of Hampshire for three seasons from 2005 to 2007. He was named in Australia’s “greatest ever ODI team”. In 2012, he was inducted into the Cricket Hall of Fame by Cricket Australia. In 2013, he was also inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. As a cricket commentation, he regularly worked on Australia’s Nine Network. He commentated during his one-year ban from cricket in 2003. He was also signed by Sky Sports in 2009 and Fox Cricket in 2018. He worked at both Sky and Fox up until his death. He made a cameo on the Australian sitcom Kath & Kim in 2007. In 2022, less than two months before his death, the documentary “Shane: King of Spin” was released on Amazon Prime Video. He was nicknamed Warney, Spin King, Warnie. His shirt number was 23.
Shane Warne Cause of Death
Shane Warne passed away on 4th March 2022. He dies at 52. His death cause is a suspected heart attack at a villa on the island of Ko Samui in Thailand. Foul play was ruled out on 5th March 2022. Many cricketers, including Virender Sehwag, Sourav Ganguly, Harbhajan Singh, Shoaib Akhtar, Sir Vivian Richards, Shahid Afridi, Kumar Sangakkara, Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar, Rahul Dravid, Adam Gilchrist, Yuvraj Singh, Kevin Pietersen, Andrew Strauss, Michael Vaughan, Graeme Smith, Ricky Ponting, Matthew Hayden, Darren Lehmann, Jason Gillespie, Glenn McGrath, Brett Lee, Brian Lara, Brendon McCullum, Tom Moody, Shane Watson, Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis, Chris Gayle, Rashid Khan, Ross Taylor, Rohit Sharma, Joe Root, KL Rahul, Babar Azam, Aaron Finch, and Pat Cummins, memorialized him. Muttiah Muralitharan, the only other spin bowler to take more Test wickets than Warne said that while they were “competitive on the field”, they were “really good friends” off the pitch. Indian cricketer Ravindra Jadeja, a friend who Warne used to call a “rockstar”, also offered a tribute. Indian commentator Harsha Bhogle, who also offered a tribute, said that Warne looked at Jadeja like his own son. The day after Warne died, Jadeja scored a century that many online commentators declared was a fitting tribute that would have made Warne proud. Moreover, a number of public figures outside of sports, such as Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman, Elizabeth Hurley, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgn, Stephen Fry, Piers Morgan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of Pakistan, and former cricketer Imran Khan, Sir Mick Jagger, Sir Elton John, Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, as well as Anthony Field and Greg Page of The Wiggles also commemorated him. Basketball player Joe Ingles also offered a tribute, as did Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York. Australian prime minister Scott Morrison gave his condolences to Warne’s family. He and Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews offered a state funeral, which the family accepted.
What was Shane Warne Famous For?
- Being a Cricketer from Australia.
- For widely considered as one of the greatest bowlers in cricket history.
- Noted for his exuberant (and sometimes effective) lower-order batting, once famously being dismissed for 99 with a reckless shot on what, it was later shown, should’ve been called a no-ball.
Where was Shane Warne From?
Shane Warne was born on 13th September 1969 with the birth name of Shane Keith Warne. He was born with complete heterochromia, giving him a blue right eye and a green left eye. As per his birthdate, his zodiac sign fell under Virgo. He was from Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Australia. Thus, he held Australian nationality and his ethnicity was Australian-German. He lastly celebrated his 52nd birthday with his parents. He followed the Christianity religion. He was born to his father, Keith Warne, and his mother, Bridgette Warne. He also had a brother namely Jason Warne.
About his education, he attended Hampton High School in Melbourne, and then Mentone Grammar School in Melbourne. There, he learned to say cricket by joining Melbourne Cricket Club and presented himself to the world as a good player. After that, he went to attend the University of Melbourne, Melbourne.
Shane Warne Career Timeline
- Shane Warne played in seven first-class matches before making his debut at Test level for Australia.
- He then had an undistinguished Test debut when called into the Australian team in January 1992 for a Test against India at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
- He took 1/150 (Ravi Shastri caught by Dean Jones for 206) off 45 overs.
- After then, he took 0/78 in the fourth Test in Adelaide, recording overall figures of 1/228 for the series, and was dropped for the fifth Test on the pace-friendly WACA Ground in Perth.
- On 22nd August 1992, he took the last three Sri Lankan wickets without conceding a run in the second innings precipitating a second-innings collapse and contributing to a remarkable 16-run Australian win.
- He was recalled for the Second Test in Melbourne, a Boxing Day Test, where he took 7/52 in a match-winning performance in the second innings.
- He was selected for Australia’s Ashes tour of England in 1993. He was the leading wicket-taker for the six-Test series, with 34.
- He was featured in South Africa’s tour of Australia in 1993–94 and Australia’s return tour in March 1994.
- In 1994–95, he took a career-best 8/71 in the second innings of the first Test at the Gabba, before going on to take 27 wickets in the five-Test series.
- In 1995, he toured the West Indies, taking 15 wickets over four Tests as Australia defeated the West Indies in a Test series for the first time in almost 20 years.
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- He was to be a key member of Australia’s squad for the 1996 World Cup, held in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Australia qualified for the final where he conceded 58 runs for no wickets in the final; Australia lost the match to first-time champions, Sri Lanka.
- In 1997-1998, he picked up 19 in New Zealand’s three-Test series in Australia, before taking 20 wickets in three Tests against South Africa.
- In 1998, Warne was a member of Australia’s touring squad of India.
- He did not play international cricket again until the fifth Test of the Ashes series in Australia in January 1999, suffering a shoulder injury.
- He was selected to play in the 1999 World Cup in the United Kingdom. Just before the start of the 1999 World Cup, he was given a fine and a two-match suspended ban by the International Cricket Council for talking to a newspaper about Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga, saying: “There is plenty of animosity between Arjuna and myself. I don’t like him and I’m not in a club of one”.
- Australia faced Pakistan in the tournament’s Final. Pakistan batted first, and was all out for only 132; Warne took 4/33. Australia chased down the target comfortably to win the World Cup.
- Then, he was retained as Australia’s vice-captain for the tours of Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe later in 1999. Later in August 2000, the Australian Cricket Board removed him as Australia’s vice-captain, citing his history of indiscretions off the field.
- He missed the entire Australian summer of 2000–01 with a finger injury.
- In the final Test at The Oval, he took 11 wickets across both innings, including the 400th wicket of his Test career (Alec Stewart) becoming the sixth person and the first Australian in the history of cricket to reach the milestone.
- Australia played home series against New Zealand and against South Africa in the 2001-2002 Australian summer.
- He next played a three-Test series against Pakistan in October 2002, held in neutral Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates.
- In an ODI in December 2002, he suffered a shoulder injury.
- In February 2003, a day before the start of the World Cup, he was sent home after a drug test during a one-day series in Australia returned a positive result for a banned diuretic. He then said that he took only one of what he called a “fluid tablet”-the prescription drug Moduretic-given to him by his mother to improve his appearance.
- During his suspension, he was hired by the Nine Network, Australia’s main free-to-air cricket broadcaster, as a TV commentator.
- He worked for the St Kilda Australian rules football club in an unpaid consultancy role, after the Australian Football League banned him from holding an official club position because of his drugs ban in 2003.
- He returned to competitive cricket following his ban in February 2004.
- In the first Test of a three-Test series against Sri Lanka in Galle, he became the second cricketer after Courtney Walsh to take 500 Test wickets.
- He broke the record for most career wickets in Test cricket on 15 October 2004 during the second Test of Australia’s series against India at Chennai.
- On 11th August 2005 at Old Trafford, in the Third Ashes Test, he became the first bowler in history to take 600 Test wickets.
- For his performances in 2005, he was named in the World Test XI by the ICC.
- Next, he began his 2006/07 Ashes campaign with an indifferent Test in Brisbane and a poor first innings showing in Adelaide.
- On 21st December 2006, he announced his retirement, which came into effect after the fifth Ashes Test match at the SCG.
- He said that it was his intention to “go out on top”, adding that he might have retired after the 2005 Ashes series had Australia won.
- His final Test was held at the same venue as his first, 15 years earlier: the Sydney Cricket Ground. Warne ended England’s first innings by trapping Monty Panesar’s lbw for a duck and his 1000th total international wicket. His final Test wicket was that of all-rounder Andrew Flintoff, stumped by Adam Gilchrist.
- For his performances in 2006, he was named in the World Test XI by the ICC and Cricinfo.
- After his retirement from international cricket, he was signed as the captain for Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League 2008, fetching US$450,000 in the pre-season player auction. He then led the Royals to victory in the first season of the competition.
- After that, he was signed as a player for the Melbourne Stars in Australia’s inaugural Big Bash League (BBL) in November 2011.
- In 2013, he was fined $4500 and banned for one match for using obscene language, making “inappropriate physical contact with a player or official” (Marlon Samuels), and “showing serious dissent at an umpire’s decision” during a BBL match against Melbourne Renegades.
- In July 2013, he officially retired from all formats confirming that he would no longer captain the Melbourne Stars in the BBL.
- He captained the Rest of the World side in the Bicentenary Celebration match at Lord’s in July 2014.
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Shane Warne Awards, Recognition, and Achievements
- Shane was inducted as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Century
- Named in an all-time Test World XI by the same publication
- Named the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World in 1997 and 2004
- Included as part of Richie Benaud’s Greatest XI in 2004
- Awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) by Southampton Solent University in 2006
- Cricket Australia named Warne in their greatest ODI XI of all time in 2007
- Awarded honorary life membership of the Marylebone Cricket Club
- On 5th March 2022, less than 24 hours after Warne’s death, the Premier of Victoria, Daniel Andrews, announced that the Melbourne Cricket Ground’s Great Southern Stand would be renamed the S. K. Warne Stand
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Who is Shane Warne Wife?
Shane Warne was a married man. He married his dearest and beautiful wife, Simone Callahan on 1st September 1995. The couple welcomed daughters namely Brooke Warne and Summer Warne and a son namely Jackson Warne. Sadly, the pair announced their divorce in the year 2005. In April 2007, Warne and his ex-wife were reported to be getting back together two years after divorcing. However, five months later, she again left him after he inadvertently sent her a text message he had intended for another woman. Following his split from Callahan, Warne dated English actress Elizabeth Hurley. Shane was engaged to Elizabeth Hurley from 2011 until their separation in 2013. After then, he was seen with Emily Sears in 2017. Before his demise, it seems he was living a single life. His sexual orientation was straight.
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Since his retirement, Warne had been doing “work for the Shane Warne Foundation… [which] assists seriously ill and underprivileged children”. The charity has distributed £400,000; its activities include a charity poker tournament and a breakfast, and “by the end of our summer, we hope to have raised £1.5 million”. The charity was launched in 2004 and was closed in 2017 as it had been hemorrhaging money, running at a financial loss for four out of the past five years to that point. In 2014, a particularly bad year, the foundation raised $465,000 but spent $550,000.
How much is Shane Warne Net Worth?
Shane Warne was a talented former Australian cricketer who had made a huge fortune from his professional career. As of 2022, the net of Shane is estimated to have $50 Million as per sources. He has a vast number of fixed and current assets to his name, making him one of the wealthiest cricketers in the sport. His source of wealth includes his earnings as a former international and first-class cricketer and his revenue from his various broadcasting and media gigs which includes the many brand sponsorships and business interests of the late Australian player. Coming to his career earnings, income, and salary; he was making an annual salary of more than $4 Million. He also owned a luxury designer house in Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Australia. Likewise, he owned multiple real-estate properties across the countries. He owns few of the best luxury cars in the world. His collection of cars includes a Mercedes SUV. He signed a lucrative multi-year sponsorship deal with Messages On Hold in 2005. In January 2008, Warne signed a two-year agreement with 888poker to represent them at poker events around the world, including the Aussie Millions, World Series of Poker, and the 888 UK Poker Open. This sponsorship agreement ended in January 2015. In 2009, he started an underwear line called Spinners. He was a part-owner of the SevenZeroEight gin distillery. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, he announced that the company would turn its production from gin to alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
How tall was Shane Warne?
Shane Warne was a handsome man. He had a tall and perfect height of 6 feet 183 cm. His balanced bodyweight consisted of around 75 Kg or 165.5 lbs. He had heterochromia due to which one of his eyes was ‘Blue’ and the other was ‘Green’. His hair color was blonde. His body type was athletic. His chest size is 40 in, waist size is 30 in and biceps size is 14 in.
In August 2021, Warne contracted COVID-19 and was placed on a ventilator “to make sure there were no longer-lasting effects”. He said, “I had a thumping headache and I had one day where I had the shivers, but sweating, like when you have the flu.” He also said that Australians would have to learn to live with the virus.
