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The late "King Of Spin", Shane Warne, can still make the Boxing Day Test his own, with fans flocking to this year's event to honour the Australian sporting ...

So we encourage fans to remember Shane [the same way]." On Monday morning, Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA) announced that the Men's Test Player of the Year award will be renamed the Shane Warne Men's Test Player of the Year at the annual Cricket Awards on January 30. "His place as a legend of Australian and world sport is assured.

Australia's top men's Test player each year will forever more be presented with the Shane Warne Award.

and once they came, nobody knew how to put on a show quite like Warnie – particularly here at the MCG." He played an important role in the formative years of the ACA and never knocked back an opportunity to promote and grow the game … That is narrowly ahead of Khawaja's 824 at 68.66.

Cricket Australia has announced the Australian men's Test player of the year will be named after the late Warne.

Also significantly, Warne was the only one of the five players not to be knighted. Warne’s “ball of the century” to Mike Gatting in the 1993 Ashes series is an iconic sporting moment. This is the first Boxing Day Test at Warne’s home ground since he died suddenly on 4 March, aged 52.

There have been emotional scenes at the 'G to honour the cricketing great, while the game's governing body has unveiled another touching tribute.

Everyone in the crowd stood in Warne’s honour. and once they came, nobody knew how to put on a show quite like Warney – particularly here at the MCG.” Australian Cricket Association CEO, Todd Greenberg said: “I’m proud that the ACA, along with Cricket Australia, is able to recognise the incredible impact Shane had on Test cricket with an award named in his honour.

David Warner starts brightly with the bat in his 100th Test after Cameron Green's maiden five-wicket haul earlier saw the tourists bundled out for just 189 ...

Then, having reached 19, the Proteas captain sliced a drive off Green's first over that flew to the left of Lyon at backward point who, despite timing his dive perfectly, was unable to hold the sharp chance in his left claw. Boland's remarkable rise to cult hero after making his Test debut a year earlier was summed up by the roar that echoed through the MCG when he first fielded a ball in the opening over, but even that paled alongside the reception he received when called upon to bowl. Cummins' rationale was that, unlike the controversial Gabba pitch that was clearly going to benefit bowlers for the duration of the first Test, the MCG strip was not going to get any tougher to bat on than day one, so he was therefore keen to "have a proper crack at it". Having seen his skipper needlessly sacrifice himself, Bavuma decided to follow the example by pushing hard at a ball from Starc that decked away from him and feathered a catch to Carey on the stroke of lunch. Zondo – his team's top scorer in the second innings at the Gabba with an unbeaten 36 out of a paltry 99 – slapped a drive to the left of extra cover only for Marnus Labuschagne to launch into a dive that would have done Argentina goalie Emiliano Martinez proud. Green's 5-27 on day one of the second NRMA Insurance Test against South Africa not only represented his first such haul in Test company, it came on the day cricket remembered the late Shane Warne who was the most recent Australia men's player to compete that feat on Boxing Day.

Almost 70,000 fans poured into the MCG on Monday to see Australia host South Africa and pay tribute to the late great Shane Warne.

“I know he loved to play in SA, he had a great record there as well. He could spin it that far.” “That and his wrong’uns. I’m sure Warnie with 95,000 here against England playing against Kevin Pietersen and that, he would have loved it. “It’s just really special for me to be here today because he’s like the Babe Ruth of baseball. He was also good for a bit of banter, he was always giving it to the South Africans and the Indians but he would also take a joke.

Australia's men's Test Player of the Year award has been renamed to honour legendary spinner Shane Warne, the country's cricket board announced on Monday.

and once they came, nobody knew how to put on a show quite like Warnie – particularly here at the MCG," he added. Warne himself won the award once in 2006 for his record 40 wickets in 2005. He died of a suspected heart attack in Thailand earlier this year.

Social media's love affair with cancelling long-dead celebrities has reared its head again, this time with Australian cricket icon Don Bradman in the firing ...

“He was the best chairman of any organisation I’ve had anything to do with, absolutely outstanding. “The public must be re-educated to believe that private enterprise is entitled to rewards as long as it obeys fair and reasonable rules laid down by government. “Focusing on the opinion of others yet no criticism of the actual message in the letter which, given the state of the economy and Brad man’s role as a company chairman, was to be expected of a man doing his job.” Bradman — who was 67 at the time of writing the letter — also warned Mr Fraser about the power of unions and urged for the public to be “re-educated to believe private enterprise is entitled to rewards, as long as it obeys the rules”. Former Lord Mayor of Brisbane Clem Jones previously described Bradman — who claimed to live a “non-political” life — as a “bigoted right-wing politician”. “A marvellous victory in which your personal conduct and dignity stood out against the background of arrogance and propaganda indulged in by your opponents,” Bradman wrote.

Just about set to go here in Karachi, with the sides out on the park now for the anthems. First ball about five minutes away! The teams are in for both sides.

It was a day of firsts in Karachi during the opening day of the first Test between Pakistan and New Zealand as a Kiwi wicketkeeper Tom Blundell produced a ...

While history was made prior to the toss with New Zealand back in Pakistan for a Test series for the first time since 2002 and Pakistan veteran Sarfaraz Ahmed earning a recall for what was his first Test on home soil in his 50th appearance, what then occurred during the first session was a first in Men's Test cricket. It is the second time it had occurred overall, with the Women's Test between Australia and the West Indies in Jamaica in 1976 also commencing with two stumping dismissals. It was a day of firsts in Karachi during the opening day of the first Test between Pakistan and New Zealand as a Kiwi wicketkeeper Tom Blundell produced a feat never seen before in 145 years of Men's Test cricket.

Kiwis record all-time Test cricket first but drops punished by star's brilliant century.

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England's Test cricket captain highlighted the pressure on standards across all formats by the current schedule, citing the recent ODI series in Australia.

The scheduling and everything like that I think just doesn’t get as much attention given to it as it should. “And I don’t think that’s the way for international cricket to go. Stokes retired from one-day internationals in the summer, saying it was “unsustainable” for him to play in all three formats.

It is losing the attention of the fans with all the new formats and franchise competitions. We understand there are so many opportunities for players away from ...

Flintoff would have been compared to Botham and I got compared to Flintoff. “Test cricket has been spoken about in a way I don’t like. Some of the messages were very emotional to read.” “It is perceived that men shouldn’t be seen to show weakness, but I have never had an issue with expressing my feelings and opening up about It. But for me it is so important for the game. It is losing the attention of the fans with all the new formats and franchise competitions,” said England red-ball skipper Ben Stokes, while speaking with former England skipper Ian Botham on a BBC Radio 4’s program, Stokes talked about various pressing issues in cricket.