I couldn’t quite believe it when I read this today – Shane Warne will miss the start of the county season in England as he will be playing poker in Vegas!! Yes really, the professional cricketer will be fulfilling a sponsors request by showing up at the World Series over playing for the team he captains (Hampshire) in cricket.
I understand the demands that sponsors put on people, but this shows piss poor planning from someone, and I can’t believe that Hampshire aren’t more up in arms about it. He is supposed to be a cricketer, not a poker player and this looks like he’s just taking the piss out of them. Obviously he can only get away with it as Hampshire would rather Shane for 90% of the season (he’s already ruled himself out of Twenty20 again) than not at all, but does it really set a good example as a captain? I’m not sure it does..
I think he should forfeit his place in the tournament and give the chance to me!!
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jim says:
Both the aAUstralian n Indian captains have promised to play a memorable contest, forgetting the Hogg Issue:
http://www.cricketviewer.com/captains-promise-a-memorable-contest.html
Scorpicity says:
ha ha ha… he is still the dude… poker ho ho… strip poker i suppose
BTW am adding you to my blog roll… cheers