Shane Warne The Great Leg Spin Bowler In The History Of Cricket

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Personal Information:-

Full name:-Shane Keith Warne

Born:-13 September 1969,Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Australia

Age:- 41

Children-Brooke, Jackson and Summer.

ex-wife:- Simone Callahan

Height

6' (1.83 m) 

Career Information:-

 

Batting style:-Right-handed

Bowling style:-Right-arm leg break

Role:-Leg spin bowler, Lower order batsman

National side:-Australia

Test debut:-2 January 1992 v India

ODI debut:-24 March 1993 v New Zealand

ODI shirt no.:- 23

 

Trivia

Professional cricket player for Australia.
Banned from playing cricket for Australia for one year, after being discovered to have taken illegal diuretics. [February 2003]
Brother Jason Warne is his manager.
According to many, revitalized the art of spin bowling when it was fading away in the face of hard-hitting forms of the game of cricket.
Member of Australia's cricket team (1991-2003).
One of Wisden's Cricketers of the Century.

Shane Warne in IPL with Rajasthan Royals

Was the second bowler to take 500 test wickets. The first was Courtney Walsh from the West Indies.
During the Third Test of the Ashes tour of England in 2005, he became the first bowler to take 600 Test wickets.

Three children: Brooke, Jackson, Summer.

Shane Warne with his ex-wife Simone Callahan

Very close friends with English cricketer Kevin Pieterson.