Shane Warne ... can spin it

Till that man Shane Warne is with the Rajasthan Royals anything can happen.

He was tipped off to be the next Australian captain but lost it due to the various reasons. Even Australian greats like Ian Chappell, Greg Chappell, Richie Benaud, Mark Taylor including Steve Waugh always felt that Shane Warne would have been one of their best captains in history.

He comes from a different school of thought in contrast to Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting. One was groomed under Mark Taylor while the other was the successor of Steve Waugh. But in all due to respect to both of them, Warne would have been a much better inspirational figure.

He made two great decisions in two matches.

During the match against the Kings XI Punjab, apart from himself he bought on, Salunkhe to bowl who immediately foxed Jayawardene in flight and had him stumped. Warne himself got rid of the dangerous looking Sangakkar who had hit 19 runs of 6 balls of the previous over.

In the match against Deccan Chargers, he bowled Yusuf Pathan from nowhere and he got rid of both Afridi and Gilchrist in the same over!

If that wasn’t enough, he finished the game by a 4,6,6 to clinch a thrilling win with 1 ball to spare. Afridi’s verbalisms sure must have spurred him on. I think Afridi got his answer in typical Australian style, “You never mess with Warne mate!”

Shane Warne can surely spin it on the head; be it the game or the ball !