I only found it out from my usual news source…
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Shane Warne. One of the all-time greats.
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Awful day for Aussie cricket
Bloody hell - can’t believe that - only 52
There is a great documentary about him on amazon prime - definitely worth a watch
Bloody hell, that is a shocker, younger than me as well…
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Can’t believe it, a great, and a Hampshire great.
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Real shocker that. Loved watching Warney at Hampshire. RIP.
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Two all-time greats of Aussie cricket gone in two days. Bloody hell.
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Bloody great for Hampshire. Bloody annoyingly brilliant against England. What a loss
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Oh FFS, not Warney.
Legend gets thrown around too often in general. This guys was truly an Australian, Hampshire and Cricket legend.
RIP Warney.
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Fuck I thought that had to be wrong!
I’m in shock, amazing cricketer, one of the all time greats cruelly taken at such a young age. 
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This is the preferred version…
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RIP Shane Warne.
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As a Village Cricketer and England Fan, hatred of every Aussie cricketer was in my DNA. That applied to Shane Warne.
Except, that off the pitch he was a boke. And I liked that. He did all the Bloke things I couldn’t quite reach, (despite some amazing efforts).
And for that I found myself liking him and then when he started to give back I started loving him. I loved him at Hampshire, I loved him as a Commentator and he was and will remain.
A Legend
RIP.
Shocking news
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Genuinely stunned by this. I only have few real sporting heroes, Matt Le Tiss obviously, Jimmy Greaves, Stanley Bowles, Muhammad Ali, Alan Knott and Shane, probably the greatest of the lot. When he was bowling I couldn’t miss a delivery, he was just mesmerizing, surely the best spin bowler ever.
I remember an account, in I think The Observer, of a County Championship game at Southampton, Hants v Middlesex, Shane was captaining Hampshire. Shane had received a message from a model of his acquaintance inviting him for a threesome with her and a friend. At close of play Shane drove to her house in London, picked up a couple of bottles of champagne and spent the night with the two of them. Drove back to Southampton in the early hours, slept in his car at the ground for a couple of hours then took the field and took seven Middlesex wickets to win the game for Hampshire. In his interview with the local sports journalist when he came off the field Shane proclaimed himself ‘tired’! I recall one of the girls sold the story, complete with photos, to the News Of The World who did a big splash a few weeks later, with a headline that went something like, ‘Shane Warne spends the night romping with two models in London then drives back to Southampton and takes seven wickets the next morning. Shane Warne, we salute you’. Wonderful. It must still be out there somewhere on the internet, I’ll try and dig it out.
RIP Shane, and thanks for the memories.
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Ha ha great story, he used to go on the piss in Hamble and the surrounding villages, from what I gather he genuinely liked the area.
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No sign of The Observer report on this story on the internet which is a shame as I remember it was very funny. This will have to do. As the man said, Shane - We salute you.
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