Shane can't stay out of the spotlight
In the Weekend Australian , Peter Lalor writes that although a Test comeback for Shane Warne seems positively ridiculous, that has never stopped the legspinner before.
Brydon Coverdale
25-Feb-2013
In the Weekend Australian, Peter Lalor writes that although a Test comeback for Shane Warne seems positively ridiculous, that has never stopped the legspinner before.
Love him or hate him, you just cannot ignore him. Most former Test champions fade quietly into retirement. At best they adopt a blazer and a polished media persona, at worst they man the machine guns for hacking attacks on the game and players who have diminished so much for their absence.
Not Warne, however. No, when he left the stage the spotlight followed.
He has been gone from the national team for an entire summer, but has made sure he is rarely forgotten and so it was on Monday morning that the world woke to hear that the leg-spinner was open, after a fashion, to making a comeback for next year's Ashes.
The thought was tantalising, but there was a lot of fine print that needed to be taken on board before anybody got the steak knives in this deal.
Brydon Coverdale is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets here