Here's a link to someone else's poll, and an article arguing for and against the case for Shane Warne as a great Australian. So far 63% of people voting in the Sydney Morning Herald don't think Shane Warne comes up to scratch - but then, it is a Sydney paper and he IS a Victorian...
Personally, I think Warne is a superb cricketer and a flawed human being. He will go down as one of the game's alltime greats and did cricket a fantastic favour by restoring the place of spin-bowling in test cricket after a decade where pace ruled all, but he is also a bit of an idiot who has managed more than his fair share of loutish moments. But his skill as a cricketer should outshine those moments. You can find plenty of idiots in Courtenay Place on a Friday night who could easily wake up on Saturday to remember that they sent dodgy text messages to someone who is not their partner. If the papers were to report on any of them, then there would be no room for anything else. Unless he breaks the law, what Shane Warne does outside of cricket shouldn't be our concern - no matter how amusing it sometimes is.
Wednesday, 5 January 2005
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History will remember him as one of the true greats - his feats on the field and the statistics will always speak for themselves. People and history will forget the other stuff...
Mike and Karl, you're probably right. But as well all the idiotic things, which we can forget as they aren't really our business, he also did some reprehensible things such as take money from bookies, which is a cricketing issue and therefore is our concern.
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