Cricket Equipment – Records – Shane Warne To Retire

With Shane Warne set to retire after the latest Ashes victory for the Australian Cricket team, it seems fitting to document his career which spans more than 15 years and has included many records and achievements in the cricket world, in fact, Shane Warne certainly has the equipment to be remembered for many years to come as one of the greatest leg spin bowlers on record.

Born on 13th September 1969 in Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Australia, Shane Keith Warne played with his cricket equipment for the first time at the Junction Oval in Melbourne. At this time, Australia were in need of a really good leg spin bowler for their Test team and took a chance on Warne, selecting him for the Australia B team which toured Zimbabwe in September 1991. Little did Australia know that Shane Warne’s bowling would break records in years to come.

In 1991, Warne and his cricket equipment, appeared in the Australian A team in a match against the West Indies, where he took 3/14 and 4/42. Warne was subsequently rushed into the team for the Third Test against India at the Sydney Cricket Ground a week later. His performance didn’t break any records in his first test match, in fact, Warne had an undistinguished Test debut, taking 1/150 off 45 overs, and recording figures of 1/228 in his first Test series.

Despite the inauspicious start to his Test career, Warne has since revolutionised cricket thinking with his mastery of leg spin, which many cricket fans had regarded as a dying art. Cricket had been dominated by fast bowling for about two decades before his cricket equipment debut. 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.

Many of Warne’s most spectacular performances have occurred in Ashes series against England, whose players' inexperience against leg spin bowling made them particularly vulnerable. So, its not surprising that after making a remarkable performance in the Ashes 2006/07, that Warne has decided to bat his cricket equipment for the final time. Warne will call time on a remarkable record breaking career at the top.

Interviewed at the side of the WACA pitch after the third test match at the Ashes 2006/07, having dismissed last man Monty Panesar to win the third Test and win back the Ashes, Warne admitted: "These are the things you're going to miss and I'm a lot closer to the end than the start."

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