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Well it’s taken us a while but we’ve finally managed to get McGrath and Warne to retire. I was kind of hoping that it would be as a result of KP and Freddie despatching them to all corners of the ground as we retained the Ashes but I guess you can’t have everything.
Happy retirement, boys.
Tags : Cricket, Australia, Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath
As much as I’ve mocked him on this site, there is no doubt that Shane Warne will go down in history as one of the greatest players to have ever played the game of cricket. Patrick Kidd over at Line and Length sums it up nicely when he says
And I suppose the best way to understand Warne’s ability is that throughout the present series, I have felt stone cold terror in the pit of my stomach as soon as he has come on to bowl.
That is exactly how I have felt watching Warne bowl at English batsmen since that delivery way back in 1993. Test match cricket can sometimes drift along somewhat aimlessly over a 5 day period but as soon as Warne got the ball in his hands, you knew something was going to happen. Inevitably that “something” was a procession of English batsmen returning to the pavilion with a look of utter confusion on their face.
Cricket is going to miss him when he’s gone. It’s not just the viciously turning leg breaks that we’re going to miss. Oh no. When Warnie hangs up his golden boots after the Sydney Test, there’s something else that has become an integral part of watching cricket that will disappear forever.
I hadn’t even considered it but, as JC point out, there will have been at least one Australian who was jumping for joy yesterday as the Pie Eater announced his retirement from Test cricket.
Step forward the Drinks Waiter.
Tags : Cricket, Australia, Shane Warne, Stuart MacGill
It has been confirmed that one of the legends of cricket is to retire. A master of the art of bowling and an entertainer with the bat, he will be sadly missed by cricket fans around the world. Somehow cricket will never be the same again. I feel honoured to have seen a true legend of the game.
In other news, some fat Australian who eats a lot of pies has also quit the game. He’s simply not in the same class as Harmy. Any muppet can get 700 wickets but has he ever bowled a ball straight to second slip? No. I rest my case.
Tags : Cricket, Steve Harmison, Shane Warne
Everyone is talking about it. It seems that Shane Warne is going to announce his retirement in the next 24 hours. He’s called a press conference and it seems inevitable that it will be to tell the world that he’s calling it a day. The only other options are
a) he’s setting a target of 1000 Test wickets and has asked the ICC to change the fixture list so that England play Australia every week
b) he’s made a breakthrough in laser hair replacement and turns up at the press conference looking like Cousin It from the Addams Family
c) he’s developed another mystery ball which he is dedicating to Geraint Jones and is calling it The Choker
d) he’s coming out
Personally I hope that it is one of the above because even though the fat git keeps on bowling us out, I love watching Shane Warne bowl. He will go down in history as one of the greatest players ever to play the game and I’ll miss him.
Tags : Cricket, Shane Warne
