Shane Warne is a former Australian international cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest bowlers in the history of the game. 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 still playing at the time. He is also a cricket commentator and a professional poker player.
Education
Shane Warne attended Hampton High School from Grades 7–9, after which he was offered a sports scholarship to attend Mentone Grammar. Warne spent his final three years of school at Mentone.
Shane Warne was chosen to train at the AIS Australian Cricket Academy in 1990 in Adelaide.
Career
Warne's first representative honours came when in 1983/84 season he represented University of Melbourne in the then Victorian Cricket Association under 16 Dowling Shield competition. He bowled a mixture of leg-spin.
He started in the lower elevens and over a number of seasons progressed to the first eleven. During the cricket offseason in 1987 Warne played five games of Australian rules Football for the St Kilda Football's club under 19 team. In 1988 Warne once again played for the St Kilda Football Club's under 19 team before being upgraded to the reserves team, one step below professional level. Following the 1988 Victorian League Football Season Warne was delisted by St Kilda and began to focus solely on cricket. He was later chosen to train at the AIS Australian Cricket Academy in 1990 in Adelaide.
His international career is divided into several periods:
1. Early international career (1992–1993)
2.Path to 300 Test wickets (1993–1999)
3.Vice-captaincy of Australia (1999–2000)
4. Wickets and injuries (2001–2003)
5.Ban from cricket (2003)
6.Return to cricket (2004–2006)
7.International retirement (2006–2007)
8.Twenty20 career (2008–present)
The popular, charismatic and entertaining Shane Warne is not only one of Australia’s most successful sportsmen but is a superstar of global proportions. ‘Warney’, as he is affectionately known throughout the cricketing world, is arguably the greatest bowler ever to play cricket.
Shane is Australia's highest ever wicket taker with 708 test wickets at an average of 25.42 - a genius of the game in every respect.
Shane Warne joined the Melbourne Stars for the inaugural year of the Big Bash League, where he was undoubtedly one of the standout players of the tournament – putting on display his unrivalled cricketing genius and reaffirming himself as one of the true greats of the game.
Retired from international cricket since 2007, the ‘King of Spin’ now spends his time working for his charity for seriously ill and underprivileged children, The Shane Warne Foundation; sharing his peerless cricketing insights as a columnist for the Telegraph in London and various Australian publications and commentating for Channel Nine Australia and Sky Sports UK. Shane captained and coached the Indian Premier League’s Rajasthan Royals for the first four years of the IPL, including to victory in the inaugural IPL Twenty20 cricket tournament in 2008.