Healy urges Warne not to give up

Ian Healy has urged Shane Warne not to retire, and to grit it out through the controversies that surround him and his mobile phone.

"I hope [Warne does not retire] because then he will be remembered solely for the last 12 months," said Healy, speaking to the AAP news agency. "He needs to clear his head, and the harder it gets for him the clearer his cricket focus will become, and hopefully he will give us two good years of cricket, whether it's for Victoria or Australia. Hopefully he can have a crack at being remembered for what cricketers will remember him for - his great skills."

Healy did say, though, that Warne might find it hard to get back into the national team. "You couldn't say he would come back and slot back into the team with the good form of Stuart MacGill. He might never get back in the Australian team. That doesn't bother me as long as he plays some good cricket for Victoria ... that will be enough."