![]() ![]() His ball that gazoodled Mike Gatting in 1993, bouncing outside leg stump and cuffing off, is unanimously esteemed the most famous in history. He swatted more runs than any other Test player without making a hundred, and was probably the wiliest captain Australia never had. He was the first cricketer to reach 700 Test wickets. He took a Test hat-trick, won the Man-of-the-Match prize in a World Cup final and was the subject of seven books. His story was part fairytale, part pantomime, part hospital drama, part adult's-only romp, part glittering awards ceremony. When Warne likened his life to a soap opera he was selling himself short. The man who in 2000 was rated among the five greatest cricketers of the 20th century was, in 2006, bowling better than ever. ![]() Now he has come out the other end, his bluff and bluster and mischief and innocence somehow intact. For a long while there were women, then a bookmaker, then diet pills, then more women - and headlines, always headlines. Then came wild soaring legbreaks, followed by fame and flippers. At first there were nerves and chubbiness. ![]()
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