Sir Shane Warne?

In the Daily Telegraph, the retiring Shane Warne looks back at his career; he names Daryl Cullinan his favourite batsman to bowl to, Navjot Sidhu among his least favourites to face, Ian Chappell the biggest influence on him as a cricketer, and jokes about why he hasn't been knighted yet.

It has to be Sachin, because of the seemingly effortless way he deals with the pressure of a billion people hanging on his every move. He never puts a toe out of line off the field, and never queries an umpire’s decision on it. We have been good friends for a while — even if it’s not so friendly when we are out in the middle — and one of the pleasures of playing in the IPL has been the chance to spend a little time with him. My final match, in Mumbai this evening, will in fact be against Sachin’s team, the Mumbai Indians.

In BBC Sport, Tom Fordyce talks about how anticlimactic Warne's farewell is and ponders on how he will be remembered.

In two decades of devilish tweak, extravagant celebrations and tabloid-filling good times, Warne had a hold over English batsmen and fans like few others before and none since.

Some have described him as a magician, conjuring the impossible from those twirling arms and wrists, foxing onlookers with sleight of hand and tricks of the finger but to a generation of player and fans in Blighty he was always more of a torturer - breaking hearts, plucking prize scalps and forever tightening the thumbscrews, his mere appearance at the end of that skip of a run-up enough to trigger waves of foreboding and fear.

James Lawton in the Independent writes it is time to orget the foibles and mistakes: Warne demands place alongside the game's other immortals.

Yet if any man has ever proved himself capable of meeting the demands, of not only surviving but never yielding the ability to intrigue and delight and amaze, it is surely the 41-year-old Victorian who as recently as last December was still inspiring the desperate Australian hope that he might walk back into the Test arena he left in 2007 and turn around a deepening Ashes debacle. All across Australia there were plaintive cries that he should come back, and this was so even when he flew away to London for the problematic wooing of Liz Hurley.