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/ 26 September 2006
Shane Warne believes that Australia’s defeat in England last year has proved the ideal catalyst for coach John Buchanan’s ageing side ahead of the latest edition of the Ashes. Warne returns to his Melbourne home this week after a season in English county cricket as captain of Hampshire, and will build up to November’s first Test in Brisbane by playing for Victoria.
Shane Warne has firmly rubbished rumours of an impending return to Australia’s limited overs squad. Warne, back in the United Kingdom for the start of a county season with Hampshire, said he had no intention of coming out of his self-imposed one-day international retirement.
Shane Warne has insisted it will be England who will be under pressure when the Ashes series against Ricky Ponting’s Australian tourists gets under way in July. Australia have won the last eight Ashes series dating back to 1989 and, although England are now ranked second in the world, Michael Vaughan’s men will be outsiders to break the sequence.