Vale Shane Warne

[TubbsFarquhar]

Still in shock about this. Marsh was sad, but he was before my time so it doesn't hit quite as much as watching someone growing up. When Gough mentioned the Greg Jericho quote of Gen Xers losing a childhood sport idol and then one of their own, us Gen Yers/Millennials have lost of our own childhood sporting idols .

 

[Leon]

Legendary player, legendary.

Easily the best bowler I’ve ever seen, and IMO the best cricketer of the past 40-ish years.

I still remember staying up into the early morning in 1999 to watch that semi final against South Africa.

Australia makes a mediocre 213, South Africa get to about 0/40 in reply pretty easily and it looks just about done and dusted.

The balls gets thrown to Warne. He lets rip a delivery just about as good as the Gatting ball (IMO) and Herschelle Gibbs is dismissed. Gary Kirsten and Hansie Cronje follow quickly. Suddenly they’re 3/50 or so and Australia right back in it.

The next 8 or so overs the South Africans are just mesmerised by him, playing defensive to every ball just to see out his 10 overs, even though they badly need to lift the run rate.

Phenomenal performance. Literally no one else could have gotten Australia back into that match the way he did.

RIP to a legend.

 

[Festerz]

Suspect he had the odd dart but more just a regular drinker. But he never been slim, so maybe the fat face and stocky body was too much work for the heart to distribute what it needed out.

Plenty of people with fat faces and stocky bodies live to ripe old ages. And not forgetting that sadly Warnie is outlived by both his parents.

Shane was on yet another health kick too:


Will leave it to the health experts to make an assessment of causes of his sad early death in due course but will not be surprised if his lifestyle and long term smoking habit will be raised in passing as will his recovery from covid, a documented high risk factor coronary heart disease.

Either way, he crammed more life into those 52 years than the vast majority of us will be able to do, even if we live beyond 100.

 

[PhatBoy]

Someone on the ABC not reading the moment and talking about themselves.

Surely you jest.

It's obvious Warnie wasnt a saint (other than a supporter) and he paid for his mistakes. Probably more than considering what he was punished for.

One thing life has taught me is that there are very few unflawed greats. Without thinking everyone could reel off 10.

He also an interview on ABC that couldn’t have been more glowing

 

[Father Jack]

The man, the legend

 

[Westy2487]

Yeh. He was definitely on the Pseudos. Heart attack material.

 

[Festerz]

How many cricketers have, or will, get a feature obituary in the New York Times?

Not too many I'm guessing.

Shane Warne, One of Cricket’s Masters of Spin, Dies at 52 (Published 2022)

Warne’s management company said the Australian star died Friday of a suspected heart attack.

www.nytimes.com

 

[JackOutback]

A genuine shock. He was not substantially older than me so so much of my adulthood was spent watching him as a contemporary. Easily the best bowler I’ve ever seen and maybe the best player.

 

[kickazz]

How many cricketers have, or will, get a feature obituary in the New York Times?

Not too many I'm guessing.

Shane Warne, One of Cricket’s Masters of Spin, Dies at 52 (Published 2022)

Warne’s management company said the Australian star died Friday of a suspected heart attack.

www.nytimes.com

In the Washington Post as well.

 

[Jiggyman]

Absolutely gutted.

 

[kickazz]

Was up and down as a batsman but often made runs when we needed them most.

 

[Plugger35]

How many cricketers have, or will, get a feature obituary in the New York Times?

Not too many I'm guessing.

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Shane Warne, One of Cricket’s Masters of Spin, Dies at 52 (Published 2022)

Warne’s management company said the Australian star died Friday of a suspected heart attack.

www.nytimes.com

"The specific types of balls he threw"

Nice of them to accuse him of being a chucker.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

"The specific types of balls he threw"

Nice of them to accuse him of being a chucker.

Classic Americans.

 

[cartwright]

That Paul Kelly song has been in my head today

 

[Plugger35]

Classic Americans.

Trying to explain cricket to Americans is like trying to explain colours to a blind person, they are absolutely clueless.

 

[Nuggetz]

Im still laughing about the story about Warney is Gillys autobiography.

It was just after he got busted in his playboy undies in the newspaper with the models and he got dragged to that camp under Buchanan.

He got told they were only allowed 1 spare set of undies to take & to give the boys a laugh, he picked those undies and made sure the whole team saw he had packed them.

On that same camp, the army guys running it said to everyone you aren't allowed to take your ciggies with ya. Warney said if the ciggies aren't going then the king isn't going....guess what, he was allowed his ciggies...long live the king!

RIP

 

[Plugger35]

On that same camp, the army guys running it said to everyone you aren't allowed to take your ciggies with ya. Warney said if the ciggies aren't going then the king isn't going....guess what, he was allowed his ciggies...long live the king!

RIP

He was allowed to smoke on that I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here show too, it was one of his prerequisites for appearing on the show.

No one else could probably get away with that other than Warnie but they were so desperate to get him on the show that they bent the rules for him.

He really was a legend both on and off the field.

 

[Blue1980]

Hang on.

Wasn't it just last week where the Vic Govt, MCG and AFL agreed the Great Southern Stand needed to be torn down as part of an urgent MCG rebuild because it's out of date and lagging behind the quality of stadiums in other cities?

Either way, the new stand which replaces it whenever it happens will still have the same name.

 

[Blue1980]

John Elliott would have endorsed this.
He hated having to walk outside to have a smoke.

Only one of them have a stand named after them now.

 

[footyfan1978]

Only one of them have a stand named after them now.

Jack did not deserve one

 

[Blue1980]

Do not think he was a drug taker according to a few friends of his.
Suspect he had the odd dart but more just a regular drinker. But he never been slim, so maybe the fat face and stocky body was too much work for the heart to distribute what it needed out.

I mean we don’t know, but yes if he was into anti aging stuff that could of played a part (especially with unsafe super fast weight loss).

I mean doesn’t matter in this particular moment, but for someone like me a decade younger just a reminder how short life is and how it can all end in an instant.

 

[Blue1980]

Jack did not deserve one

I should of added and only warney deserves one

 

[Gough]

Jack did not deserve one

I'd name Princess Park after him for what he's done to Carlton.

 

[Xtreme]

I didn't realise that the Victorian Government owned the MCG and could dictate the names of the stands!

 

[Stig O'Hara]

I didn't realise that the Victorian Government owned the MCG and could dictate the names of the stands!

Granted it’s a formality & thoroughly deserved.

Would have thought it was an MCC thing.