A glimpse at the fine numbers of Shane Warne: For the 90’s kids, there are a few names that are elemental to the sport of cricket. Shane Warne is one such name. From weaving a web of insoluble magic around the batter’s leg stump to imposing an impregnable choke upon the ones willing to free their arms, the emperor of leg-spin penned a legacy that has so far been rivaled by a solitary name.
A man who even posted a tweet ten days ago where he talked about getting back in shape, life ironically chose him to leave his mortal shell and embark upon a journey to the skies.
Shane Warne breathed his last at the unripe age of 52 where he passed away from a suspected heart attack. Even though the world is still to be affirmed of this aforementioned statement, what matters is the unfillable void that he left behind himself.
The man claimed three hat-tricks in Test cricket, scored 3154 runs with the bat in the longest format of the game, claimed 125 grabs in red-ball cricket and became the quickest bowler in the history of the whites to reach 200 wickets. He racked up the last feat in a span of just 1440 days, an enviable piece of stat that transcended him beyond his contemporaries.
He claimed batters for a zilch an overwhelming 102 times, no mere feat for a mortal to rack up. Wherein the current days have seen players struggling to claim a single wicket in the Ashes, he has an incredulous 195 wickets in the world’s most chequered and infamous rivalry.
He wasn’t just known for his wicket-taking ability. His bowling was so tight that the batters had to actually set themselves on retreat mode unless they were super-confident of opening their arms. He racked up 1761 maiden overs in the longest format of the sport.
Shane Warne also held the record of the second-highest number of fifers in the longest format of the sport as he claimed 37 of these glorious exploits. He also claimed 17 man-of-the-match awards in his international career.
To date, he holds the record of claiming the highest number of international wickets in a single year as he claimed 96 scalps in 2005.
Bringing together his career combined in both Tests and ODIs, Shane Warne managed to claim 1001 international wickets and is only the second bowler to do so.
Shane Warne is also the first bowler to rack up 600 and 700 wickets in Test cricket and to date remains being one of the two bowlers who would go on to rack up more than 700 wickets in the longest format of the game.
If these numbers aren’t a burning ode to the iconic legacy that the man left behind, maybe you would just take a step back and contemplate another demise, an irrefutable fact of the universe.
