![]() ![]() The book is born out of the quest to take a fresh look at the craft of the greatest spin bowler the game has seen the career of a man who oozed Aussie aggression but was guided by common sense and a remarkable cricketing mind, and was never excited by a regimented approach (read John Buchanan). ![]() Thus for anyone attempting to re-tell Warne's remarkable cricketing journey, it has to be more about the narrative than about facts.Īnd this is what Gideon Haigh, renowned Australian cricket writer and author, achieves with stupendous success in On Warne. Unlike his illustrious contemporaries Sachin Tendulkar, who has built a monk-like aura around him, and Brian Lara, who stood out in a team in decline and has willingly faded away from the eye of the cricket world - the let-it-rip master can't have enough of the public glare. ![]() While his leg-spin bowling exemplified all that is romantic about cricket, Shane Warne also made sure his actions, through a brilliant international career and beyond, were never short of drama. ![]()
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