RIP Warney
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@scribe this is the way!
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A long read but well worth it for the anecdotes from three Kiwi cricketers.
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A bloody good read, but especially:
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It turned out it wasn’t just verbal tuition – which was always positive and encouraging – for Sodhi, either. The master, one year shy of the half century, was able to give an in-the-flesh demonstration.“One distinct memory I have was a net session, we were in there and [England international] Jos Buttler was the batter,” Sodhi says.
“No-one could get him out, all these young fellas were trying really hard and couldn’t do it. And then Warnie, who’s 49 at the time, rolls his shoulder around, gets a little bit warmed up, and three balls in, bowled a ball that pitched like seven stumps outside leg, Buttler’s run down, it’s turned past him and nailed off-stump.
“It was like, ‘Oh my god. This guy, he’s taking the piss’.”
...Source: 'He just made leg-spin really cool': Shane Warne's lasting impressions on NZ cricketers
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Shane Warne if in one of my gaps from NZ/ Aussie history due to being in the States. Never saw him bowl. From what I am reading a street smart person and probably I high IQ. Like most I think I would like to meet him. RIP.
@broughie said in RIP Warney:
Shane Warne if in one of my gaps from NZ/ Aussie history due to being in the States. Never saw him bowl. From what I am reading a street smart person and probably I high IQ. Like most I think I would like to meet him. RIP.
Quite a skill - Warnie getting the MCG crowd to stop throwing things at the English outfielders: https://www.facebook.com/twentyeightyearoldmale/videos/489250412832240/
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@broughie said in RIP Warney:
Shane Warne if in one of my gaps from NZ/ Aussie history due to being in the States. Never saw him bowl. From what I am reading a street smart person and probably I high IQ. Like most I think I would like to meet him. RIP.
Quite a skill - Warnie getting the MCG crowd to stop throwing things at the English outfielders: https://www.facebook.com/twentyeightyearoldmale/videos/489250412832240/
@donsteppa said in RIP Warney:
@broughie said in RIP Warney:
Shane Warne if in one of my gaps from NZ/ Aussie history due to being in the States. Never saw him bowl. From what I am reading a street smart person and probably I high IQ. Like most I think I would like to meet him. RIP.
Quite a skill - Warnie getting the MCG crowd to stop throwing things at the English outfielders: https://www.facebook.com/twentyeightyearoldmale/videos/489250412832240/
He was their Prince. They would do anything for him
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Definitely sounds like one of the top guys you would want to have a beer with
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@broughie said in RIP Warney:
Shane Warne if in one of my gaps from NZ/ Aussie history due to being in the States. Never saw him bowl. From what I am reading a street smart person and probably I high IQ. Like most I think I would like to meet him. RIP.
Quite a skill - Warnie getting the MCG crowd to stop throwing things at the English outfielders: https://www.facebook.com/twentyeightyearoldmale/videos/489250412832240/
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@broughie said in RIP Warney:
Shane Warne if in one of my gaps from NZ/ Aussie history due to being in the States. Never saw him bowl. From what I am reading a street smart person and probably I high IQ. Like most I think I would like to meet him. RIP.
Quite a skill - Warnie getting the MCG crowd to stop throwing things at the English outfielders: https://www.facebook.com/twentyeightyearoldmale/videos/489250412832240/
During the bushfires in Victoria in 2009 I watched the nightly news featuring a visit to the firefighters by that effete little man Rudd as Prime Minister. He stepped out of the Commonwealth limousine, stood and looked awkwardly towards the crews milling about, 30 or 40 yards away, collecting their tucker from the trestle tables.
They looked back at him with obvious disinterest. He then had to walk towards them, beaming and unwelcome.
The very next night the news showed a similar setting - a white sedan arrived on site, the front passenger door was opening before it stopped. Out bounded Shane Warne with a big smile and "G'day fellas", striding to them. The reaction was spontaneous - they came to him as one, laughing and enjoying the surprise, swamping him with their hospitality.
He did what he needed to do instinctively, with confidence and ease. He was a natural.
That is precisely what I see in the video you have displayed - "Quite a skill" you say. I reckon you would be fortunate to see that just once in a lifetime.
Big Merv could pull it off it; Mark Waugh too - he was good with the mob; and Greg Matthews, a charismatic and able fella, who they liked. None of them could do it with near the same aplomb as Shane.
It has been a sad week, I felt the same when Peter Brock died sixteen years ago. You come across many good men in a lifetime, some of them are truly exceptional.
