Shane Warne Profile, Minibio and Pictures

Shane Warne

Profile

Full name : Shane Keith Warne
Born : 13 September 1969 (1969-09-13)
            (age 42) Upper Ferntree Gully,
            Victoria, Australia
Nickname : Warnie, King of Spin,
                   Sheik of Tweak
Height : 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Batting style : Right-handed
Bowling style : Right-arm leg break
Role : Leg spin bowler, Lower order batsman

Mini Bio

Shane Keith Warne (born 13 September 1969) is a former Australian international cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest bowlers in the history of the game. 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 is also a cricket commentator and a professional poker player.

Warne played his first Test match in 1992, and his 708 wickets was the record for the most wickets taken by any bowler in Test cricket, until it was broken by Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan on 3 December 2007. He took over 1000 international wickets (in Tests and One-Day Internationals)—he was the second bowler to reach this milestone after Muttiah Muralitharan. A useful lower-order batsman, Warne also scored over 3000 Test runs, and he holds the record for most Test runs without a century. His career was plagued by scandals off the field; these included a ban from cricket for testing positive for a prohibited substance, charges of bringing the game into disrepute through accepting money from bookmakers and marital infidelities.

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