http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shane-Keith-Warne-c89672 to wind up 15-year career with tomorrow's game
The former Australian vice-captain and legendary spinner, Shane Warne, is to wind up his 15-year-old professional cricket career with tomorrow’s IPL-4 game between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 Indian and Rajasthan Royals. With Rows, fines and controversies, his last tournament
has proved to be a sour experience for him. He will now take rest or may get some coaching role in domestic cricket of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746.
Warne, who is a regular user of Twitter.com, tweeted, “I have had a great time-but it is time to say goodbye to IPL.”
Warne has been at the helm of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rajasthan-c837 leadership since the first season of IPL. He convincingly led the side to claim the title of the inaugural edition in 2008.
During the ongoing tournament, Warne and company have displayed somewhat shoddy performance that, the skipper thinks, is due to the pathetic pitches.
The issue of pitches has led Warne to involve in a dispute with the secretary of Rajasthan Cricket Association, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sanjay-c88566 Dixit, who has managed to get a fine of $50, 000 imposed on the non-Indian leader.
As Rajasthan Royals have been knocked out of the tournament, their Friday’s game will merely a fill-up one.
In his valedictory season, Warne has grabbed 12 wickets with an average of 22.25 so far.
The 41-year-old Warne started his international career on 2 Jan 1992 with a Test game against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wellington-c864.
The Legend was the first ever player to have 700 Test wickets. However, the Sri Lankan spinner, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/M-Muralitharan-c1864 broke the record afterwards by grabbing 800 wickets.
Warne also has vast experience of First Class and List A cricket to his credit.
Warne retired from the international cricket in 2007 and signed with the IPL in 2008.
He could play more IPL seasons but his row with Dixit proved to be last nail in his coffin and he decided to bow out of professional cricket.
Warne’s publically confessed love affair with the British model, Elizabeth Hurley, has also kept the press busy in publishing the stories like ‘Warne, Women, Wickets and Wine’.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Robin-James-Boyd-Moss-c86323 Steen, a sportswriter, pays homage to Warne by saying, “To some he has been the Messiah of spin, a rebel with a h**l of a cause, the greatest Australian contribution to global culture since the Bee Gees, the personification of competitive artistry.”
On Twittor, Warne is urging his fans to turn out to the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on Friday, May 20 to watch his last action as a professional cricketer and especially as an IPL player.
Warne’s lovers and fans are not happy at all to know about his retirement from cricket forever.
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