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Cricket Australia to rename Men’s Test Player of the Year award in honour of Shane Warne

Cricket Australia:

Boxing Day Test between Australia and South Africa at the iconic MCG, Cricket Australia (CA) and Australian Cricket Association (ACA) in joint-statement announced that Australia’s Men’s Test Player of the Year award will now be named in honour of the late Shane Warne. Cricket Australia (CA) chief executive Nick Hockley and Australian Cricketers’ Association Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Todd Greenber renamed the Australia’s men’s Test Player of the Year award to honour the legendary spinner ‘Shane Warne’ during the Boxing Day Test against South Africa.

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Key Points:

  • The Shane Warne Men’s Test Player of the Year award will be presented annually at the Australian Cricket Awards.
  • Shane Warne won Australia’s men’s Test player of the Year Award in 2006, when he recorded 40 wickets in the famous 2005 Ashes series in England.

About Shane Warne:

  • Shane Warne made his international debut representing Australia against India in 1992 in Sydney. After his retirement from all forms of cricket in 2013, he took up cricket commentary and coaching roles.
  • He participated in 145 Test matches and 194 One Day International (ODI)’s, and was the Player of the Match in the semi-final and the final of Australia’s victorious 1999 World Cup campaign.
  • He has picked up 708 wickets in Test matches which is the second-highest after Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan and 293 in ODIs to take 1001 international wickets.

 

Sumit Arora

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