![]() ![]() Shane Warne and his captain Steve Waugh were both teammates and enemies. I have lived in the moment and ignored the consequences.” Just as quickly, however, he also consents: “Lying low hasn’t been my thing. ![]() “Believe it or not, I’d take the quiet life over the red carpet any day,” he insists as early as the third paragraph. And his new book No Spinsuggests that inhabiting his public persona is ever more of a challenge for him. As he used to say of bowling: “No matter how far they hit it, it always comes back.” Warne knows this. In a branded, guarded, circumspect world, Warne remains a giver, nearing 18,000 tweets at a rate of 2000 a year, with as many followers as Warner and Smith put together. Even in his 50th year, nearly 12 years on from his retirement from international cricket, he is prepared to throw it up, tempt fate, risk embarrassment, but take events insouciantly in his stride. ![]() Yet there was also something inimitable about it. On social media, this reverse ferret was thought a bit rich. He followed this up on Friday with a tweet of lavish praise for their “guts and spirit”, their “outstanding performance”. Last Thursday, Shane Warne told an interviewer that the current Australian batting line-up was “the worst” he had seen, and that Steve Smith and David Warner would “walk back in”. ![]() I’ve spent most of my life trying not to be in them,” says Shane Warne. “A lot of people spend their life trying to be in the newspaper or magazines. Hits and myths of Shane Warne, a suburban hero ![]()
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