Shane Warne

RapidRed

Full Member
Joined
Mar 17, 2006
Messages
3,746
What a player!! Surely one of the greatest if not the greatest leg spinner of all time.

Its been a privilege to be able to watch him perform in the same era as us. I don't think we'll see another like him in our lifetime.

Shane Warne. Legend.
 
Sorry, don't know too much about cricket but i do know the guy is pretty talented.
I was watching an old Question of Sport last night,he was on it.He was ridiculously funny.Him and Coisty were working well together.
They showed a clip of him winding up the English cricketers,It really was hilarious.
 
Great bowler. Doesnt like bowling to Indians. Sachins bitch.
 
vijay said:
Is he the bloke that took drugs and later blamed his momma for the ban?
Click to expand...

he did many worse things as we all know. Everything he did off field would've destroyed a lesser players career. But its a measure of his genius that every time he stepped on the field, all that would be forgotten in light of another brilliant display.
 
Drugs :rolleyes:

The lardy vain fecker took a diaretic his mum gave him to drop a bit of weight for a publicity photo shoot.

Dimwit he may be but a drusg cheap? Nah.
 
Botham says he's the greatest cricketer of all time, thats good enough for me. He's certainly the current reason why Australia are world number one and not us. Still a bit of a tit though.
 
Fantastic cricketer. But still a cnut.
 
Just to add some debate into this thread how do you guys reckon Murali compares to Warne?
 
Desert Eagle said:
Just to add some debate into this thread how do you guys reckon Murali compares to Warne?
Click to expand...

It's an impossible task comparing the two, I reckon Warne just edges it, he has more nous...

Murali's rubber wrists gives him that ability to turn two apparently identical balls in opposite directions. His deception is extraordinary. No batsman can confidently distinguish between his off-break, top spinner or his doosra.

Magician.
 
Sultan said:
It's an impossible task comparing the two, I reckon Warne just edges it, he has more nous...

Murali's rubber wrists gives him that ability to turn two apparently identical balls in opposite directions. His deception is extraordinary. No batsman can confidently distinguish between his off-break, top spinner or his doosra.

Magician.
Click to expand...

Murali has single handedly carried Sri Lanka's bowling attack all these years though and has a better average than Warne.
 
Tests show him to be breaking the rules. They then give him remedial training until he passes the test once and then he carries on chucking until the issue comes up again. They then give him remedial training until he passes the test once and then he carries on chucking until the issue comes up again.

Then they change the rules.
 
Wibble said:
Tests show him to be breaking the rules. They then give him remedial training until he passes the test once and then he carries on chucking until the issue comes up again. They then give him remedial training until he passes the test once and then he carries on chucking until the issue comes up again.

Then they change the rules.
Click to expand...

Sir Donald Bradman, quoted as saying it was the "worst example of umpiring that [he had] witnessed, and against everything the game stands for. Clearly Murali does not throw the ball".

Muralitharan underwent biomechanical tests in Hong Kong and Australia under the supervision of bowling experts, who cleared his action as legal, citing a congenital defect in Muralitharan's arm which makes him incapable of straightening it, but giving the appearance of the arm straightening in the bowling action.

Examples of stuff from the Wiki page on Murali:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muttiah_Muralitharan#Controversy_of_bowling_action

My personal opinion is that he is not a chucker.
 
You just can't do what Murali does even if he was found to be chucking the bowl.
 
Desert Eagle said:
Please clarify?
Click to expand...


Any person who has played any form of cricket will understand the concept that it's practically impossible to turn the ball the way he does by chucking.

Turning the ball is an art, it's takes a genius and a lot of hard work to master the off-break, top spinner and the doosra.
 
both murali and warne are top class bowlers. i'm not sure who has a better record outside the sub-continent but i suspect that it's warne.
 
Desert Eagle said:
Sir Donald Bradman, quoted as saying it was the "worst example of umpiring that [he had] witnessed, and against everything the game stands for. Clearly Murali does not throw the ball".

Muralitharan underwent biomechanical tests in Hong Kong and Australia under the supervision of bowling experts, who cleared his action as legal, citing a congenital defect in Muralitharan's arm which makes him incapable of straightening it, but giving the appearance of the arm straightening in the bowling action.

Examples of stuff from the Wiki page on Murali:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muttiah_Muralitharan#Controversy_of_bowling_action

My personal opinion is that he is not a chucker.
Click to expand...

They test and train him until he passes and then stick their head in the sand when he carries on chucking in real games. It has happened at least twice. The they changed the rules to make him legal.

The "white conspiracy" rubbish further clouds the issue but my guess is that if it was Warne who was the chucker he would have been penalise/banned accordingly.

Looks at thr drugs issue. Warne a serious ban for an offence nobody really thought was an attempt to cheat and the recent case in Pakistan where it is far from clear if it was a case of cheating or simple stupidity but they were both cleared (probably sensibly).
 
@Sultan: theoff break and Doosra are hard but the Top Spinner is a pretty basic delivery.

Also its mostly the English and Aussies that have a problem with Murali. Having said that Bradman, Waugh and Flintoff have all come ot and said they have no problem with Murali. Why is he then still villified in those contries?
 
Not that i am sure about the solution but the rule change that occured due to biometric testing showing that even bowlers with "pure" actions tended to bend their arms more than we thought is a bit of a misnomer. The issue os a gaining of advantage which Murali gets due to his action and most don't. I suspect that more sophisticated testing is required or we decide to forget about the whole thing or we just let Umpires decide.
 
Desert Eagle said:
@Sultan: theoff break and Doosra are hard but the Top Spinner is a pretty basic delivery.

Also its mostly the English and Aussies that have a problem with Murali. Having said that Bradman, Waugh and Flintoff have all come ot and said they have no problem with Murali. Why is he then still villified in those contries?
Click to expand...

They think he is a cheat and treated differently from everyone else.

It sounds like I really care. Which I don't. I am just a bit of a purist about sport in general and I hate cheating. For example I'd issue an instant red card for "simulation" no matter who was the culprit.
 
Trust science Wibbs, not your eyes ;) ...It's an optical illusion that he throws.
 
RapidRed said:
What a player!! Surely one of the greatest if not the greatest leg spinner of all time.

Its been a privilege to be able to watch him perform in the same era as us. I don't think we'll see another like him in our lifetime.

Shane Warne. Legend.
Click to expand...
I have met Shane Warne, he put me and my missus on the guest list for a game in a triangular series... he is a legend.
 
Sultan said:
Trust science Wibbs, not your eyes ;) ...It's an optical illusion that he throws.
Click to expand...

I realise that he looks worse than he is but every time he is tested it takes quite a bit of time to train him to get to a point where he passes the test. And then he returns to normal in tests/ODI's.

The rule changes probably make this a moot point.
 
Shane Bluck said:
I have met Shane Warne, he put me and my missus on the guest list for a game in a triangular series... he is a legend.
Click to expand...

Did he try to shag your missus?

A mate of mine met Yorke at a party when he was at United and he tried to cop off with is wife in front of him. Not sure why he didn't get belted come to think of it.
 
TheRedFlag said:
Warne is a legend.

hope to find his autobiography in my christmas stocking
Click to expand...

Don't expect any long words unless it is ghost written.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.