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Article: Shane's the COMEBACK KID WHO WON'T grow up - BUT HAS HIS LUCK RUN OUT? As Australia resume battle against England today, most eyes will be on bad boy Shane Warne, whose marriage is in tatters after more revelations of sexual escapades.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 22, 2005
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Byline: KEITH DOVKANTS
THE scene was a cricket dressing room and Shane Warne was bellowing with anger. It seemed he had hidden a wad of money in a sock and now the sock was empty. Security men were called and it looked as if they had a nasty little crime on their hands.
Until Warne checked his other sock, that is. For there, in the empty sock's twin, was his money.
The veteran Australian cricket writer Malcolm Conn, who recounted this story, believes it helps explain a lot about a man whose behaviour has become increasingly unfathomable. On the very eve of the opening of the Ashes, perhaps the world's most compelling cricketing contest, yet ...