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Cricketer death today: Twitter reactions on Shane Warne’s shocking death

Gurpreet Singh
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Cricketer death today: Twitter reactions on Shane Warne's shocking death

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA – DECEMBER 06: Shane Warne commentates during day one of the First Test match in the series between Australia and India at Adelaide Oval on December 06, 2018 in Adelaide, Australia. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

Cricketer death today: Australia’s Shane Warne was the most successful leg-spinner to have ever played the game of Cricket.

In what comes in as a shocker of a news in the Cricketing fraternity, legendary Australia cricketer and unarguably the greatest leg-spinner to have graced the game, Shane Warne breathed his last at the age of 52 on Friday.

As per reports, Warne’s management company released a brief statement confirming his death, possibly due to heart attack at his villa in Koh Samui, Thailand.

“Shane was found unresponsive in his villa and despite the best efforts of medical staff, he could not be revived,” Warne’s management confirmed in a statement.

“The family requests privacy at this time and will provide further details in due course.”

Warne played a total of 145 Tests and 194 ODIs during his 16-year career from 1992- 2007 and scalped a combined tally of 1001 international wickets across 339 internationals at an average of 25.51.

The legend’s tally of 708 Test wickets is the second-highest overall in international Cricket; only behind Sri Lanka’s  Muttiah Muralitharan, who has a world record 800 Test match wickets under his name.

The only Australian to cross the 700-wickets mark in the longest format, Warne, was in fact the first cricketer to breach the mark in the year 2006 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).

Cricketer death today: Twitter reacts on Shane Warne’s shocking death news

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Gurpreet Singh

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Gurpreet Singh is a Cricket writer at The Sportsrush. His platonic relationship with sports had always been there since childhood, but Cricket managed to strike a special, intimate nerve of his heart. Although his initial dream of playing the sport at the highest level couldn't come to fruition, Gurpreet did represent the state of Jharkhand at the under-14 level. However, almost like taking a pledge to never let the undying passion for Cricket fade away even a tad, he made sure to continue the love relationship by assigning the field of journalism as an indirect Cupid. He thus, first finished his bachelor's in journalism and then pursued the PG Diploma course in English journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC). Soon after and since 2019, he has been working at The Sportsrush. Apart from sports, he takes keen interest in politics, and in understanding women and gender-related issues.

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