Warne expected to turn up for camp

Shane Warne will attend the Cricket Australia training camp, but has managed to negotiate with the board and is now available for Hampshire's crunch County Championship clash against Sussex, which starts on August 31. Warne has managed to secure an early release from the pre-season camp in the Queensland bush and will now just miss the match against Warwickshire two weeks earlier.

Warne had told his local paper, the Southern Daily Echo, he hoped to "sort something out" so he could appear against Sussex. However, Michael Brown, CA's cricket operations manager, appeared to rule that out when he said the entire 25-man contracted squad would be at the camp, which has been designed by the coach John Buchanan. "There were a couple of discussions with some of them," Brown told The Age, "but it's a Cricket Australia policy that they all attend and they have all agreed to attend. Arrangements are in place for them all to attend."

"I know about the training camp and I'm talking to Cricket Australia to sort something out," Warne had told the Hampshire paper, "but nothing has been confirmed either way at the moment." Now, it seems, Warne has worked his magic again.

Tim Tremlett, the Hampshire coach, told BBC Sport: "We're very pleased he will play in a pivotal match of the season. We've had dialogue with Cricket Australia, as Shane has, and we're up-to-date with where we stand."

The camp, which is expected to be held in a secret location with a series of demanding drills, is being used as a warm-up for the Champions Trophy, the Ashes and the World Cup.