King Of Spin

This virtual will have you standing in front of a sculpture that commemorates Shane Warne (1969 - 2022), a leg-spin bowler for Australia widely regarded as one of the greatest bowlers in cricket history.

Warne played his first Test match in 1992, and his 708 wickets was the record for the most wickets taken by any bowler in Test cricket, until it was broken by Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan on 3 December 2007.

He took over 1000 international wickets in Tests and One-Day Internationals.  He was the second bowler to reach this milestone after Muttiah Muralitharan. He also scored over 3000 Test runs, and he holds the record for most Test runs without a century. 

As well as Australia, he also played Australian domestic cricket for his home state of Victoria, and English domestic cricket for Hampshire. He retired from international cricket in January 2007, at the end of Australia's 5–0 Ashes series victory over England. 

On March 4, 2022, when he was on holiday in Thailand, Warne passed away from a suspected heart attack. He received an outpouring of tributes from both the cricket world and the wider community in Australia and across the globe. You can watch the touching memorial service here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pke5t5QjgY

To log this cache simply take a photo of yourself or your caching name in front of the sculpture and add it to your log.

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