Warne misses last chance for Allan Border Medal
Robert Craddock writes in The Courier-Mail it’s a shame Shane Warne will never collect the Allan Border Medal
The Surfer
25-Feb-2013
Robert Craddock writes in The Courier-Mail it’s a shame Shane Warne will never collect the Allan Border Medal. Ricky Ponting won his second award on Monday night ahead of Hussey, Lee, Gilchrist and Warne.
Warne slapped his world record 93-Test wicket year on the table, but, almost inevitably because he is a Test match specialist, he managed nothing more than a distant fifth in the medal voting. Warne's chances of winning the medal are effectively gone forever because surely he will never have a better year than his last.
The Sydney Morning Herald’s Alex Brown says there’s an opportunity for the rebirth of two former internationals this month.
Jason Gillespie, discarded from the Australian squad after a poor tour of England, has announced his candidacy as a replacement for Glenn McGrath, should he withdraw from the early stages of the South African tour. And former England batsman Graham Thorpe is favoured to return to the first-class ranks before the end of the summer, albeit for his adopted state of NSW rather than his old county side Surrey.