A grandstand has been named after the late Australian Shane Warne by Cricket Victoria and St Kilda Cricket Club. Here is all you need to know (Pic: X/File Pic)
Updated On: 2024-10-25 03:50 PM IST
Compiled by : Sujay Shivalkar
Cricket Victoria and St Kilda Cricket Club renamed one of the heritage-listed grandstands of the Junction Oval ground at Melbourne after the late spin great Shane Warne
As per ESPNCricinfo, the process to rename the stand, which has been around since 1925 had started way before Warne's unfortunate demise in March 2022. The stand was previously named after Australian rules footballer Kevin Murray who has supported the change
Shane Warne's father Keith and daughters Summer and Brooke were part of the unveiling ceremony, which took place before Victoria's match with New South Wales in the One-Day Cup
Warne passed away on March 4, 2022, after a heart attack while vacationing in Thailand. One of the most loved and followed cricketers in history, the Victorian single-handedly reinvented the art of leg-spin when he burst onto the international scene in the early 1990s
And, by the time he bid adieu to the sport in 2007, Warne had become the first bowler to collect 700 Test wickets
