275: WARNE OUT
To ‘Warnie’, I’d be just another pommy bastard (when it comes to bowlers, I worship at the shrine of Freddie Trueman), but I am still very sorry to be in a position to write this column. Opinions about Shane Warne differ sharply. Nobody, though, could deny the genius of his spin bowling. And I cannot dislike a man who, asked by a journalist to suggest his own obituary notice, replied: “I drank a lot. I smoked a lot. I did a bit of spin bowling. That’s me.”
Warne’s early death (4 Mar 2022) has an ancient connection, namely the death of
