‘Shane’ documentary review: An intimate portrayal of the man they call ‘Hollywood’
The Hindu
A new film highlights Shane Warne’s remarkable achievements as a spin legend and his controversies, but fails to go deep into his celebrated rivalry with Sachin Tendulkar
In the new documentary film Shane, there are instances where people known to Shane Warne try to downplay his image or his remarkable talents as a cricketer. Friend and British pop superstar Ed Sheeran calls him, “an everyday bloke who happens to be good at bowling”. Warne’s daughter Brooke affectionately terms him a “dorkey, blokey dad”. And the man himself downplays his “ball of the century” by calling it “a fluke, because I never bowled it again!” (more on that later).
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Let’s not kid ourselves. Shane Warne remains anything but a humble bloke. The Australian spin-bowling legend has always been larger than life, on and off the field. He has long been credited with making spin bowling, especially leg-spin bowling, fashionable again from the 1990s following a golden era of fast bowling in the previous decade.