Comments on: RIP Shane Warne. You were just about the most exciting cricketer there’s ever been

By: Bert

Bert — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 22:23:18 +0000

Best cricketer of my lifetime.

By: Professor Colin Abernathy

Professor Colin Abernathy — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 05:26:50 +0000

I’m still floored. I was genuinely expecting him to make at least one fairly compelling but mildly controversial exclamation about cricket or something tangentially related to it per fortnight into my dribbly years. He was the pantomime villain who destroyed your team in spellbinding fashion, said something silly about it, and yet still seemed the quintessential Bloke Who Would Probably Be Absolutely Lovely If You Had a Drink With Him. For a lot of us in the 90s, he basically was Australia in its muscular, emasculating (and ultimately fairly toxic) pomp, which is quite something for a curvy blond. No batter will ever be completely unafraid of leg-spin because of him. It seemed like he lived hard enough to add some extras to his total, but my goodness will he be missed.

By: Vidushi

Vidushi — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 02:03:43 +0000

Though he had many other great performance but for me I will always remember his death bowling in 1996 world cup semi finals against West indies. That was the first time as a kid I realized that a great bowler is far valuable that a great batsman in cricket. For that I will be for ever in debt to him. Rest in piece

By: Dandydandan

Dandydandan — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 18:59:20 +0000

Been over a day now and I’m still really sad about this.

By: John

John — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 16:17:48 +0000

This one hurts. He singlehandedly made being a leggy a good thing, even if I had nowhere near his ability. Hadn’t got round to watching Shane on Amazon, which is now going to be somewhat bittersweet.

By: Ged Ladd

Ged Ladd — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 12:01:38 +0000

What a strange day. Some thoughts and memories about both Marsh and Warne:

https://ianlouisharris.com/2022/03/04/the-day-the-cricket-greats-died-rod-marsh-shane-warne-4-march-2022/

By: patrick

patrick — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 06:37:55 +0000

I didn’t know.

something from 2010 in my cricket folder:

https://i.imgur.com/a4f5Tpu.png

By: Deep Cower

Deep Cower — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 02:12:42 +0000

When the world is going to hell in a hand basket, we rely on sports to provide us with moments of cheer. Not today. Not for the foreseeable future. This is too great a lacuna to fill.

By: North by West

North by West — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 18:51:51 +0000

My brain’s still trying to figure out how to process this one. As far as big names of the era goes, Sachin’s the only one on par. Children growing up will now only hear about this almost mythical leg-spinner called ‘Warnie’, who could terrify Englishmen into submission with just a few slow paces…

By: Aditya

Aditya — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 18:39:23 +0000

Damn. No age to go at all