Australia’s men’s Test Player of the Year award has been renamed in honour of famous spinner Shane Warne, according to the country’s cricket authority. The Shane Warne Men’s Test Player of the Year award will be given out at the Australian Cricket Awards each year.
Cricket Australia (CA) CEO Nick Hockley and Australian Cricketers’ Association CEO Todd Greenber announced the name of the award as a homage to Warne during the Boxing Day Test against South Africa.
He died earlier this year in Thailand following a suspected heart attack. Warne holds a special fraternity in Cricket as nobody else could really spin the ball as much as him. For the respect of the legacy he left Cricket Australia’s method of Acknowledgement has been very kind.
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“As one of Australia’s all-time greats, it is fitting we acknowledge Shane’s extraordinary contribution to Test cricket by naming this award in his honour in perpetuity,Shane was a proud advocate of Test cricket and you only have to look around at all the fans who came out to the MCG in their floppy hats and zinc on Boxing Day to realise what a profound impact he had on the game.
“I’m proud that the ACA, along with Cricket Australia, is able to recognise the incredible impact Shane had on Test cricket with an award named in his honour. While he was a once in a generation player, he was very much a man who understood the important contribution all players made to Australian cricket.
“He played an important role in the formative years of the ACA and never knocked back an opportunity to promote and grow the game … and once they came, nobody knew how to put on a show quite like Warnie – particularly here at the MCG,” he added.
