When Shane Warne speaks, you'd be foolish not to listen

oh he did it once come on , he's a dunce now.

i agree

good for him and you.

Warne is an absolute motor-mouth. He never shuts up. Drags out his opinions .laughs at his own jokes ,thinks he is the messiah of cricket ,rationale . Has got a voice that sounds like egg-slice scrapping down a glass window. Everybody knows he was capable of taking wickets .it was great but thats where it finishes. He has spoiled every game he commentates on for me. It 's like tranquility between toothaches when he is not behind the microphone. Sounds like he's hung over or on something when he opens that trap. Take a tip Warne ,either get some professional , highly professional training on presentation or bugger off. Stick to your slapstick commercials and stop bothering us people with your clap trap. Your not funny ,and how did your TVshow end up by the way. They should do the same for it now immediately.

It's true warne seemed to put little hard work on his batting talent, but then without his existence australia would've been at least 25 tests wins and a world cup short.

Warne was at best a clown, both on the field and off the field, he was never a leader and rightfully never made Australian captain. He may have had a good idea or two from time to time, but he never deserved to be captain of our national team. If he had toned down his on field behaviour, and shown some intestinal fortitude with the bat, maybe he would have deserved a shot, maybe? As for listening to what he has to say, that would be a very good idea before writing articles about him. On Starc, Warne wanted a more aggressive body language, nothing about Starc's line and length. Starc improved by getting his line and length right, which in turn boosted his confidence and lead to a more aggressive approach, performance came first, as it should. Swagger means nothing, and is often laughable, without the performance to back it up. On the other hand, the Indian bowlers took Warne's advice and tried to be aggressive and lost their line and length, and got carted all over the ground by the Aussie tail. As for the whole captain coach issue, Warne started this rubbish because he mistakenly thought Lehman called for the declaration in Melbourne, when in fact Smith called for the declaration but the batsmen didn't notice and Lehman simply passed on the captains message. Since Smith put him straight, Warne has been desperately backpeddling trying to change what he said. Warne likes attention, any attention, and everything he says has to be viewed in that light.

" big deal , gamblers luck " He's done it too often to call it that. When he was wearing a mic during T20 matches he predicted the exact way he was about to get a player out before bowling the delivery. Warney might be a tool but there is no doubting his ability to read the game.

big deal , gamblers luck

Australia dodged a bullet having Warne not becoming captain. He would of never lasted.

Just telling what is ,Warne is a crap commentator

"...the best captain Australia never had – no argument about that..." No, sorry, that's wrong, and demonstrably so. Being captain of the national cricket team brings far more scrutiny, and far more responsibility (most of it off-field, where Warne has been an abject failure) than being captain of a county, shield or T20 team. And Warne's relative lack of success as captain of Victoria suggests that he wasn't suited to captaining in the long form anyway. If you're judging on silverware alone, you'd be hard pressed to argue against the proposition that the best test captains we never had were probably Tom Moody and Stuart Law. Funny that both of these blokes went on to become very good, in demand coaches, despite Law's recent conflicts. As for Warne's commetary, I find him boring, negative and predictable. He shows little foresight, it's always analysis after the fact with him. And it's not impartial observation - listen to him talk about Clarke, or his IPL mates - never a negative word. It doesn't surprise me that he agrees with ian Chappell on almost everything - he's been Chappell's fanboy for a very long time, to the point where sometimes, you can't actually see Chappell's hand up the back of Warne's jumper, moving his mouth for him. If the reports are true that Clarke is starting to lose the dressing room, Warne cannot just assume it's the coach's doing. After all, Clarke has upset his fellow players several times in the past, including the period before he was in a leadership role. None of the non-Warne reporting on the Clarke issue has pointed the finger at Lehmann, so Warne needs to give some details instead of flinging around vague inferences without supporting evidence. Warne is like Phil Gould in the league commentary - everything he says - everything - has an agenda behind it. His comments, or as he probably would prefer them called, his pronouncements, should be viewed in that context,

How often warne predicts correctly for a wicket? He did it for yasir shah's wicket just when mohit sharma was running in.he quipped 'set him up, now a wicket',and that was it.like carl jung's psychology, it seems strange but probably very scientific.

@slane, are you knowledgeable enough about ICC's anti doping procedure for the current world cup? funnily i've been dying for the answer and can't find it nywhere.

Hear, hear!

Warne was a fantastic cricketer with pure skill, nous and mettle but he should NEVER have been captain. He was too reckless, selfish and immature to have captained a team, especially the Australian national team!

I think this article is just a cynical exercise to get the Warnie haters posting. David has had dud responses for every article forever. My criticism is that it is pointlessly divisive and suits no healthy purpose. Let Warnie be a commentator but don't elevate him above that.

I can't believe this thread. How can anyone give David Lord this kind of oxygen. It just engenders everything that is horrible about tall poppy stuff. Warnie is just a commentator now. He is not the Gospel. Ignore him if you don't like him and be interested if you find him interesting. Why try to convince someone to dislike someone?

Warne's comments should be confined to the cricket pitch. I agree with you David in saying he is an insightful commentator on the game itself, however anything further has always been influenced by personal prejudice. There is far more to leadership than setting a field and making astute bowling changes. From Bob Simpson (who AB credit's Australia's resurrection far more than his own captaincy) to Buchanon and now Lehman, Australia actually have a history of successful coaches at the highest level. Warne never forgave management for dropping him in favour of Magill. Anyway, again he's paid to speak, its that simple. The guy this is hurting most has to be Clarke. Surely this does nothing for his standing amongst his teammates having Warne chip in on internal affairs.

Agreed, Warne was a great player, but his biased friendship is getting in the way of making some intelligent comments, boof is the best coach going around and seriously does anyone remember how badly we were doing after the homework saga where Arthur had divided the team, now we are a united team thanks to Lehaman not Clarke or Warne.

How exactly did Mitch Starc's girlfriend jump to his defence about him "not being soft"?