Warnie. Just Warnie. It is customary at a time so sombre, serious and upsetting to put it more formally: Shane Keith Warne, Australian cricket hero, is dead at 52.
He's cavorting — was Warnie the last great cavorter? — around a hotel room in grainy black and white, embroiling himself in scandal. He's on 99 against New Zealand, skying one into the deep, the captivation of those present extending to the umpire, who misses the no-ball that he should have called. Perhaps, though, we find in his early biography the ingredients of his Peter Pan routine of the past decade — all that talk of World Series Cricket, mixed lollies and bygone TV characters. Was he simply frozen in the carefree idyll his indulgent parents had nurtured him in? There are worse places to be.There were three other things that shaped the youthful Warne. The first was that his teenage stomping ground offered a thriving social scene.
In the late 1980s, Warne was brought into the fold at Barker's club St Kilda, kicking a promising volume of goals in the Under-19s. Promoted to the Reserves, matched against men, he came unstuck. Club honchos thought he was too fat and slow. The club cut him loose and the disappointment stung. More importantly, it was the period in which Warne hooked up with Terry Jenner, a former Test leg-spinner who'd fallen on hard times, serving 18 months in jail for embezzlement. It didn't bother Warne, who sensed a kindred spirit. Jenner became his spin whisperer, and their fortunes rose in tandem.
It was a story to which Warne would return repeatedly: the chubby, peroxide-mulleted nobody being belted around the SCG by Ravi Shastri; the unimposing debut figures of 1-150 from 45 overs. But he was on his way.The Ashes tour of 1993 is rightly regarded as ground zero for the cult of Warne, but there were two previous performances that signalled Australia's spin project might come off.
"Gatting has absolutely no idea what has happened to it," said Richie Benaud, and — as the shocked batsman departed the scene shaking his head — "still doesn't know."When that perfect leg-break fizzed past Gatting and took the bails, the dying art of leg-spin became the most captivating spectacle in the game. Or more accurately, Warne did.
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