![]() ![]() ![]() These began to teem even as he walked back, starting each time with a rubbing of the right hand in the disturbed dirt of the popping crease - for grip, for feel, and for the reassurance, perhaps, of the ritual. But this will be the sense most difficult to convey to those who did not see Warne at his long peak: the depth and breadth of the possibilities he conjured up so simply. Has any Australian ever been so massively and minutely watched, had their every deed, mood and musing pored over? The sense of imminent event accompanied him everywhere, off the field as well as on, and still does, despite the passage of six years since he represented Australia. Look away and you were bound to miss something. Yet it never ceased to beguile and excite - that something so simple, so brief and so artless could cause so much perplexity at the other end, and such anticipation around the arena. Shane Warne's bowling action was seen more than 50,000 times in international cricket. The art of Warne By GIDEON HAIGH THEAUSTRALIAN 11:00PM OCTOBER 19, 2012ĮIGHT paces: that's all it was. Sharing the article here, because of paywall: ![]()
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