It is his fortune that he lived in the modern age which had a rigid examination of his art from a multitude of angles at a multitude of space and in different granularity of data that he does permit repeated studying. He is one of the those who made us doubt the evidence of our own eyes. It was just fascinating, and it was very special and very unique to Warne. He loosely starts off by saying that the ball has taken Gatting’s pad, and then exclaims “Oh No! That has bowled him! And he is just standing there. And the interesting thing about Agnew’s call is that he doesn’t know what has happened. It was interesting that a lot of people in the last week who had me interviewed played the audio of the ball of the century, which was Warne’s ball to dismiss Mike Gatting 20 years ago. I quoted an Australian historian, a man called Greg Denning who said “Nothing is so fleeting as a sporting achievement and nothing is so lasting as the revelation of it.” It is absolutely true in Warne’s case.

The remarkable thing about Warne is that you can watch these things again and again and again, and they still seem magical. That makes it far more pressing to actually describe the sensation of watching someone who was so watchable. I think it is a bit of an assumption these days because the people have seen us on videos, on television, and they don’t need us to describe. I just thought it was time for someone to take him seriously, which I don’t think most of the writers have. I think that for all the words that have been written about Warne in book form, he has remained elusive and patchy, and even his own works have been insubstantial. GH– I’d like to think that this one is good, because I don’t think the other books are very.

SJ– Getting back to the book – If you talk about your cricket, we will keep talking about it for ever… How is this attempt of yours different from all the other ones that are out there about Shane Warne? GH– These days, I just think in terms of the number of games, and see if I have achieved enough. SJ– So, you are on your way to beating your own record, 92 runs? SJ– And all the bones are still in the same place.

You delivered the Bradman Oration speech and you had a book published “ On Warne”. Last week was a pretty hectic week for you. SJ– Thanks for coming on the show for the second time. He also discusses the club cricket culture, the need to play cricket at any level to gain perspectives as a writer, the positives and drawbacks of staying an independence voice, his favorite books, amongst other things. He talks about his new book “On Warne”, the motivation behind and the construction of it, and the differences from it to the other biographical sketch he had done, of Jack Iverson in “The Mystery Spinner”. Today’s guest is the prolific writer Gideon Haigh. Subash Jayaraman– Hello and Welcome to Couch Talk. Subscribe to Couch Talk podcast on iTunes.

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