Shane Warne RIP

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Much more likable than Mcgrath and relatable than Lee.

Still hated him Thursday through Mondays though. Didnā€™t stop me joining in the standing ovation at OT in 2005, though.

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I donā€™t follow cricket but obviously knew his name

this gif just got put in a whatsapp group and fucking hell he could do THAT with the ball?

RIP

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ponting, gilchrist, langer, hayden
absolute tank full of bastards, but all completely top class

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I for one, fully stand behind this Aggers take. Gotta hand it to him.

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fucking hate these pricks like mcgrath and hayden coming over to do comms and turning out to be quite likeable. i donā€™t want to like them, i want to hate them forever, with all my heart

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Clarke and Hussey too.

Actually, maybes not top tier but they had incredible runs of form.

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gilchrist was sound, he was the only one who would walk. warney had that gazza esque cheeky charm / troubled genius thing going on. the rest of them were snide pricks (in their playing careers)

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Surprising to hear a senior BBC journalist slagging off the 2005 players, but heā€™s not wrong.

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That sort of 1999-2003 era is not just the best cricket team ever but up there for best international team in any sport ever tbh.

8 of them wouldā€™ve been in a world xi at the time

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Blimey, what a shock. Actually met him once, when he came into my Cardiff store (his team was playing Glamorgan, round about 2005 - was after that Ashes series). Seemed quite a decent bloke, I on the other hand was basically like a gibbering schoolgirl meeting the Backstreet Boys or something. One of the all time greats.

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Ponting was the real sickener for me

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As a 17/18 year old it just felt so unfair.

Spent years waiting for Waugh, Boon, Healey, Taylor etc to fuck off then in walk an even better bunch of cunts.

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Hope itā€™s not too disrespectful to mention his well document issues in the early 00s with coke, I just hope it isnā€™t linked here.

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what the fuck!

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Fucking hell, he was so young :frowning:

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Fuck. Served him at work once. Had a conversation about cricket, shared a few jokes. Seemed as sound as he did on TV. This has really got to me.

A true legend and probably the best bowler of my lifetime, arguably ever. RIP.

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Hayden
Kallis (I know)
Ponting
Tendulkar
Steve Waugh
Hussey
Gilchrist
Warne
McGrath
Donald
Murali

Yeah, not far off a world XI that, and he was one of the best of them.

Think thatā€™s it, Warneā€™s the first ā€œlegendā€ from my childhood watching cricket to pass away (sorry if somebody else did and I forgot), and it isnā€™t like heā€™d disappeared from TV after he retired, either.

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That 2005 ashes will always be the pinnacle of a cricket summer for me and it was mainly because of how ā€˜final bossā€™ that Australia team was. Just so good, never accepted they were beaten, always found a way to win, and Warne was the absolute epitome of it.

Weird how in a sport where Brett Lee is throwing them down at 100mph from the other end you felt genuine fear from a batsman more when Warne was bowling.

Think I took the end of his and muralidaranā€™s careers for granted as theyā€™d been around forever and surely theyā€™d be replaced but I think the two of them are going to sit miles away from everyone else for a long time

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Gutting

Had lots of periods where he was pretty much unplayable and barely survivable. Was amazing to see as a kid, loved to hate him, proper pantomime.

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