LONG before Australian cricket legend Shane Warne took more than 700 wickets at the highest level, he was sending down spin for Mentone Grammar’s cricket team.
Tributes have been pouring in this week for the sporting icon, who died in Thailand last weekend of a heart attack. He was just 52-years-old.
In 1987, Warne captained the Mentone Grammar AGSV Premiership 1st XI side. In the wake of his sudden death, Mentone Grammar put out a tribute to him.
“The Mentone Grammar Community is shocked and saddened by the sudden passing of a beloved Mentonian, Shane Warne (Class of 1987),” the online tribute read. “Needing no introduction, Shane is regarded by many as the greatest leg spinner of all time and a true international cricketing legend. He enjoyed a long and illustrious career from 1990 until he officially retired from all forms of the game in 2013.
“At school, Shane captained the Mentone Grammar AGSV Premiership 1st XI cricket in 1987 and he remains an inspiration to our cricketers today, as he does for so many around the world. We mourn the loss of this sporting great and our thoughts and prayers are with his friends and family, especially his three children, at this devastating time.”
First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 9 March 2022