Warne silenced after Smith’s a “fool” comment

Shane Warne was censored by Cricket Australia before a News Limited interview went to press on Sunday night. Jon Pierik writes that Warne’s comments about Graeme Smith were twice refined by CA officials and the legspinner has since been lectured by Michael Brown, the cricket operations manager. “Warne's line that Smith was a ‘motormouth’ who looked like a ‘fool’ was removed,” Pierik says.

The original version from The Courier-Mail is here.

It hasn’t been the best week for Warne, with The Australian, the national broadsheet, carrying a story that his wife Simone has started divorce proceedings.