From the prime minister to punters, Australians were devastated to wake to the news of the spin-bowling great’s death
The death of Shane Keith Warne – leg-spinner and larrikin, legend and lair – at the age of just 52 has left a nation in mourning.
Australians woke to the scarcely believable news that the cricketer, a man who had, for many, come to embody the rarely realised national ideal of the irreverent, unafraid maverick, had died of a suspected heart attack.
Continue reading…From the prime minister to punters, Australians were devastated to wake to the news of the spin-bowling great’s deathAndy Bull: Warne was a genius with carefree spiritCummins leads tributes | Shane Warne obituaryThe death of Shane Keith Warne – leg-spinner and larrikin, legend and lair – at the age of just 52 has left a nation in mourning.Australians woke to the scarcely believable news that the cricketer, a man who had, for many, come to embody the rarely realised national ideal of the irreverent, unafraid maverick, had died of a suspected heart attack. Continue reading…