Shane Warne

Shane Keith Warne (born September 13, 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), is an Australian cricketer, and captain of Hampshire. He is one of the greatest leg spin bowlers in cricket history. In 2000, he was selected by a panel of cricket experts as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Century. Since October 2004, he has held the record for the most wickets taken by any bowler in Test cricket, and in August 2005, he became the first bowler to take 600 Test wickets. He has, however, been plagued by scandals off the field throughout his playing career.

Recognition

• He was chosen as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year for 1994.
• In 2000, Warne was named by a 100-member panel of experts as the fourth of five Wisden Cricketers of the Century. Warne received 27 votes, behind Sir Donald Bradman (100 votes), Sir Garfield Sobers (90 votes), and Sir Jack Hobbs (30 votes). Sir Viv Richards took the fifth place, with 25 votes.
• He is one of only two Australian cricketers currently playing the game to have been named in "Richie Benaud?s Greatest XI" in 2004 (Adam Gilchrist was the other).He is very famous for his "Ball of the century" ,which he bowled on his very first Ashes outing in 1993 in the first test ,when he bowled Mike Gating ,the then English skipper with a ball that turned 18 inches outside offstump to hit his offstump .