Great Southern Stand at MCG to be renamed after Shane Warne

Great Southern Stand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) will be renamed after the SK Warne Stand as soon as possible, Victorian Sports Minister Martin Pakula announced on Saturday. Australian cricket, along with the entire cricketing world, is in a state of shock at the loss of Shane Warne, a true cricketing genius, who died aged 52. The legendary spinner passed away after a suspected heart attack.

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Shane Keith Warne, the man who made leg-spin bowling sexy again in the 1990s after Pakistan's maverick Abdul Qadir had done the same in the 1970s and 80s, and illuminated the cricketing stage, courtesy his arresting duels with legendary batsmen Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar, passed away after a

"I don't want to talk through talk about the renaming process other than to say I had a conversation with Dan a couple of hours ago and he's exchanged messages with Shane's brother and whilst they might be a technical process that would normally be gone through, sometimes you need to dispense with that," Sydney Morning Herald quoted Pakula as saying. "You need to respond in the way that I think the whole community would think is appropriate," he added.

Warne was one of the most influential cricketers in history. He almost single-handedly reinvented the art of leg-spin when he burst onto the international scene in the early 1990s, and by the time he retired from international cricket in 2007, he had become the first bowler to reach 700 Test wickets.

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