Shane Warne the Australian Test cricket spin bowling wizard will begin a new career as a poker professional, so reports said on Wednesday.
The test cricket star Warne, retired with a record 708 wickets, he had signed with online poker company to play the World Series of Poker, won by his Australian poker mentor Joe Hachem in 2005.
There are a lot of similarities but nothing will replace the 20 years of cricket in my life. Warne in his own words. "It's a game of skill that has a lot of analogies to cricket. You have to be very very disciplined."
Warne throughout his cricketing career attracted much controversy off the field as he did on it, to an Indian bookmaker and the phone text scandals and of course the breakup of his marriage over extramarital affairs.
Warne also served a ban for testing positive to a prohibited diuretic and also was charged with bringing the game into disrepute after criticising Sri Lanka's captain in 1999.
However, Warne was acknowledged by cricket fans around the world as one of the finest leg spin bowlers in the world and in 2000 was the only bowler to be selected as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Century.
Warne has been playing poker every week with friends for the last 5 years, for the most recent times he has been taking avice from Hachem, who he saw on a regular basis.
His first professional game of poker would be at this week's Aussie Millions tournament Melbourne. Warne "My attitude is I've got a lot more to learn about the game."
Warne is expected to play poker in the United States, New Zealand, South Africa and Great Britain this year, while filling a development role for Australia's promising spin bowlers.
The test cricket star Warne, retired with a record 708 wickets, he had signed with online poker company to play the World Series of Poker, won by his Australian poker mentor Joe Hachem in 2005.
There are a lot of similarities but nothing will replace the 20 years of cricket in my life. Warne in his own words. "It's a game of skill that has a lot of analogies to cricket. You have to be very very disciplined."
Warne throughout his cricketing career attracted much controversy off the field as he did on it, to an Indian bookmaker and the phone text scandals and of course the breakup of his marriage over extramarital affairs.
Warne also served a ban for testing positive to a prohibited diuretic and also was charged with bringing the game into disrepute after criticising Sri Lanka's captain in 1999.
However, Warne was acknowledged by cricket fans around the world as one of the finest leg spin bowlers in the world and in 2000 was the only bowler to be selected as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Century.
Warne has been playing poker every week with friends for the last 5 years, for the most recent times he has been taking avice from Hachem, who he saw on a regular basis.
His first professional game of poker would be at this week's Aussie Millions tournament Melbourne. Warne "My attitude is I've got a lot more to learn about the game."
Warne is expected to play poker in the United States, New Zealand, South Africa and Great Britain this year, while filling a development role for Australia's promising spin bowlers.
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