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Sharne Warne Retires!

I was watching news this evening, as usual when one news caught my eye. It was nothing extraordinary. However, the number of times the news & its details were flashed on screen on one of the news channel makes me particularly write about it. Sharne Warne is retiring and there must be too many mixed reactions from cricket lovers and his fans in particular. Warne has surely been an awesome bowler and a wonderful cricket player at times. Also one more wonderful Australian bowler, Glenn McGrath will bid farewell to the cricket career as a bowler. There was very little that was mentioned about McGrath. Sharne Warne seemed to steal the show as usual, not in the right sense though. Let me remind you that I was watching one of the Indian news channel, which are famous for adding sensitivity to any bit of information they have and make it sellable. As I continued watching the news piece, what irritated me most was the repeated telecast of acts with which Warne had disgraced himself. The sca