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Shane Warne

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Shane Keith Warne (born 13 September 1969) was an Australian former international cricketer, widely regarded as one of the best bowlers in the history of the game. He was named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in the 1994 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. He was the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World 1997 (Notional Winner). He was named Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World for the year 2004 in the 2005 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. In 2000, he was selected by a panel of cricket experts as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Century, the only specialist bowler selected in the quintet and the only one playing at the time. He was also a cricket commentator and a professional poker player. He officially retired from all formats in July 2013.
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Engaged to Elizabeth Hurley [October 2, 2011 - December 2013].
1993 Ashes: 1st Match, Day 2 (1993): With his first ball against England, in his first Ashes Test, Australian Spin bowler Warne produced a spectacular delivery that bowled Mike Gatting out. It became recognized as *Ball Of The Century".
Member of Australia's cricket team (1991-2003).
Banned from playing cricket for Australia for one year, after being discovered to have taken illegal diuretics.
In the year 2000, Warne was voted by ESPN as the 4th greatest cricketer of all time, behind fellow Australian Sir Don Bradman and West Indians Sir Garfield Sobers and Sir Vivian Richards.

All my coaches tell me that I have been under achieving.
Four hundred wickets is 400 more than I thought I'd get.
I just play because I love playing and I try and take as many wickets as I can.
I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them... on face value. I think that was how we were both, the way we were.
The first thing is to be patient, which is probably the hardest thing to do. Don't worry if blokes are whacking you out of the park because you still have the opportunity to get him out next ball, even if it's not the same ball.

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