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    "excerpt": "England Prime Minister Boris Johnson  said he was \"shocked\" and \"saddened\" to hear about the demise of Australian spin legend Shane Warne at the age of 52 after suffering a suspected heart attack.",
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    "editor1": "<p>England Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a keen follower of the game of cricket, said he was &quot;shocked&quot; and &quot;saddened&quot; to hear about the demise of Australian spin legend Shane Warne at the age of 52 after suffering a suspected heart attack in Thailand on Friday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The crisis in Ukraine notwithstanding, Johnson found time out from his busy schedule to pay his tributes to Warne on Saturday, saying, &quot;Totally shocked and saddened to hear about Shane Warne -- a cricketing genius and one of the nicest guys you could meet, who also did a lot to help disadvantaged kids into sport.&quot;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The PM also posted an image of him holding a cricket bat with Warne by his side and surrounded by young players.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Celebrated English singer, songwriter, actor and film producer, Mick Jagger, whose love for the gentleman&#39;s game is well known, tweeted, &quot;I&#39;m so saddened by the sudden death of Shane Warne. He brought such joy to the game and was the greatest spin bowler ever.&quot;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\r\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Totally shocked and saddened to hear about Shane Warne - a cricketing genius and one of the nicest guys you could meet, who also did a lot to help disadvantaged kids into sport. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EO3K6Ipwh6\">pic.twitter.com\/EO3K6Ipwh6<\/a><\/p>\r\n&mdash; Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BorisJohnson\/status\/1499802858635550723?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>\r\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n\r\n<p>The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) too expressed its condolences saying, &quot;One of the greatest of all-time. A legend. A genius. You changed Cricket. RIP Shane Warne.&quot;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Former England captain Michael Atherton, writing for skysports.com said, &quot;I don&#39;t think many people read the game better than he (Warne) did, and of course he had great character and a way of putting it across.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;All the intelligence you saw as a player came across in his commentary,&quot; Atherton said of Warne, who was his fellow commentator in Sky Sports.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;Hearing the news, I was totally stunned. I don&#39;t think I&#39;ve ever been more shocked in my life. A man who had such vitality, full of energy and life and suddenly not to be there. He&#39;s my age effectively -- he&#39;s a year younger than I am -- so he&#39;s somebody I played against a lot for a decade in Ashes cricket and I commentated alongside him for a long, long time so I know him pretty well,&quot; added Atherton.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;But all the intelligence you saw as a player -- I think he&#39;s the most intelligent bowler I played against -- came across in his commentary. And using the word intelligence, I&#39;m not talking about A-Levels and that kind of thing, but raw cricketing intelligence which he had in spades. He was a fabulous bowler.&quot;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Atherton said that leg spin was a dying art when Warne came on the big stage, with Australia dominated by pacers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;Leg spin was a dying art when he was picked actually. With Australia, you think of the land of the wrist spinner, it&#39;s where wrist spin flourished and really developed because of the hot sun and the hard pitches. But in the 70s it was pace bowling that dominated: Dennis Lillee, Jeff Thomson -- and Lillee was Shane Warne&#39;s hero when he was growing up.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;So wrist spinners had slightly withered away a little bit and it was almost this forgotten art, and then suddenly Allan Border picked him (Warne) in 1992. The early Tests were a bit in and out and then obviously that first Ashes Test match at Old Trafford in 1993, we hadn&#39;t seen much of him until that point, and unlike today it wasn&#39;t a time where you had a lot of footage of opposition players.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Also Read: <\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricketnmore.com\/ipl-2022-auction-list-of-all-players-teams\">IPL 2022 Auction Overview List Of All Players &amp; Teams<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;He came a little bit under the radar, but not after he bowled Mike Gatting. And then for the next 15 years, he was the superstar of the game,&quot; added Atherton.<\/p>\r\n",
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