Shane Warne’s eccentric state memorial won over even the cynics

Every pop star who performed played their biggest hit, because it was “Warnie’s favourite”.Warne didn’t complicate his music tastes and he didn’t complicate much else.

His simplicity was the simplicity of walking into the dressing room with shopping bags stuffed with money he’d won at the casino, as he did in an anecdote told by Andrew Symonds in the very first story to make it to the broadcast audience.It’s the kind of simplicity that looks at an England team who scored over 500 in their first innings, in a Test looking destined for a draw, and shrugs, “bowl them out”.

Isa Guha told the television audience about the simple kindness of him wanting a colleague to succeed, of turning to her during a broadcast and asking for her expertise, and the simplicity of choofing darts on a speed-run down the highway to London. The straightforward love Warne had to tell his children they could rise to life’s challenges, to say please and thank you and to be happy.

Sportspeople are often held up as geniuses, and some ridicule that. But for those who worship at the altar of sport and watch these figures triumph and fail and triumph again, we know it is a real genius. Who but a genius can look all the chaos and fear and judgement in the eye and again and again: keep it simple.

Whole Event was as if he’d been made a Saint, it’s a wonder he’s not been posthumously knighted

Don't worry, it will all fade quickly.

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