Shane Warne would smoke, put it out and then enter the ground: Michael Clarke reveals dressing room secret

Talking about Shane Warne's struggle off the field, former Australia captain Michael Clarke has said that the legendary leg-spinner would smoke before entering the ground for matches.

145 Test matches and 708 wickets! Those are the figures which a rookie bowler wishes to achieve at the end of his career. Every spinner, especially a leggy carry the dream of becoming the next Shane Warne of world cricket. But can someone really emulate what the Australian legend did. Achieving or surpassing his on-field feats are difficult but coping up with the media scrutiny and doing what he did on the 22-yard is beyond imagination. Australia's World Cup-winning captain Michael Clarke has revealed about Warne's struggle with all the media attention due to his off-filed antics. He has also made a startling revelation on how Warne would smoke moments before a match and leave everything behind the ground before switching himself in the match mode. “He would always leave the things happening off the field, off the field. Generally, Warnie would have a smoke as he was walking onto the ground. He will try to hide it somewhere. And when he finished his smoke and put it out, he knew that it was game time. He crossed that line and whatever he had going off the field, he would leave it there, go and do his stuff on the field and when he came back, he knew it was still going to be there,” Clarke said on the Uncensored Podcast