He was the definition of a life lived to the fullest. 9News
, this will reverberate for a long time, possibly forever – with a huge chunk of 90s kids who grew up, glued to Channel Nine after school on a summer afternoon, wondering how anyone could be as cool as Shane Warne.
This isn't to alienate older cricket fans, who will rightfully grieve just as much – but just as they had Thommo and Lillee, or the Chappells, or Richie, or Bob Simpson, we had Warney.We wanted to bend it like Beckham and dunk like Michael Jordan – but Warne was different. He was ours. He was someone any of us could try to – albeit fail in doing so – emulate in our backyards and on pitches. We all asked for zinc to wear during our days of junior cricket, and many a ball was bowled onto the roof of the local nets trying to copy his elegant, wrist-spinning action. Every parent of the 90s probably had to deny a request for bleached-blonde hair at some point. But the thing is, as much as we wanted to be like Shane Warne – nobody ever could, and nobody ever will. They say you die a second time when someone says your name for the last time – so it's unlikely Warne ever will, his legacy carrying on through generations in a way few others could.
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