Shane Keith Warne was an Australian cricketer. A right-arm leg spinner, he was widely considered one of the greatest bowlers in cricket history, and in 2000, he was selected by a panel of cricket experts.
Shane Warne: How did die| Highlights| Kids| Vaccine
How did die:
Shane Keith Warne, the Australian spin bowling legend, was as enigmatic as a sportsperson could be. A true artist with a ball in hand, a fierce competitor on the cricket field and a bit of a maverick off it.
The leg-spinner went from one career high to another and the controversies followed him all along. Warne’s rise to superstardom began with his very first delivery in Ashes, cricket’s oldest rivalry. Playing his first Test match against England, Warne clean bowled veteran batter Mike Gatting with a delivery hitherto unseen on a cricket field.
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It was 4th June 1993, the second day of the first Ashes Test at Old Trafford in Manchester, when Warne managed to get a ball to pitch outside the leg stump, and the vicious turn on the cherry took it past Gatting’s bat and clipped the top of the off stump. That delivery has since come to be known as the “Ball of the Century”.
Warne ended the match with 8 wickets to claim the “man of the match” award. He would end the series as the highest wicket-taker with 34 scalps and that started his rise to cricketing immortality, as Australia bulldozed England for more than a decade in Test cricket.
Kids:
As far as his personal life is concerned, Warne was married to Simone Callahan between 1995-2005. The couple had three children namely Brooke Warne, Summer Warne and Jackson Warne.
It was only last year that Warne had labeled being a single parent as “difficult but fun”. “I always made their lunches, walked them to school, took them to sport, etc. It was bloody hard – being a single parent is difficult, but fun too. I’m so glad they are 19, 21 and 23 now,” Warne was quoted as saying by The Herald Sun in 2021.
Vaccine:
Late Australia spin legend Shane Warne had said that he was put on ventilator briefly when he was battling Covid-19 in August last year.
Warne’s death was announced in the early hours of Saturday in Australian Eastern Daylight Time to shock and disbelief with his management saying that the 52-year-old died of a “suspected heart attack”.
