Iconic leggie (leg spinner) Shane Warne's tweet pertaining to his conditional acceptance of the much coveted Team Director' s post has certainly set the virtual world atwitter and how..........
Laconically responding to the legions of tweets posted by concerned Englishmen imploring him to accept the much coveted Team Director's post: Warne said that he was certainly not averse to accepting the challenge if the English Cricket Board approached him... .....
But, he also added that he would only do the same after putting much thought into his decision and not make any decision about accepting the post or otherwise based on emotion or in undue haste..........
One may do well to recall the fact that both the English Cricket Board as well as the legions of followers of the English Lions have not exactly been averse to foreigners occupying the highest post in the nation's cricketing hierarchy..............
Outgoing team director Andy Flower had been in charge of the team since 2009 and present Indian coach Duncan Fletcher had also helmed the English team for a period bordering eight years or so............
Shane Warne currently has both his hands full with his current assignment as the spin consultant to the Australian Cricket Team on it's current tour to the rainbow nation (South Africa) and is also committed to being the mentor to many a budding Aussie tweaker in the period leading up to the ICC World Twenty20 world cup which is slated to be held in Bangladesh in late March/April 2014...........
In the interim, many an English fan would certainly be hoping and praying that Shane Warne (the best captain that the Australian team never had) as legendary Aussie captain Ian Chappell termed him accepts the post without much ado and leads the bruised and battered English team into a new dawn following from it's 5-0 demolition in the recently concluded Ashes series down under...........
Laconically responding to the legions of tweets posted by concerned Englishmen imploring him to accept the much coveted Team Director's post: Warne said that he was certainly not averse to accepting the challenge if the English Cricket Board approached him... .....
But, he also added that he would only do the same after putting much thought into his decision and not make any decision about accepting the post or otherwise based on emotion or in undue haste..........
One may do well to recall the fact that both the English Cricket Board as well as the legions of followers of the English Lions have not exactly been averse to foreigners occupying the highest post in the nation's cricketing hierarchy..............
Outgoing team director Andy Flower had been in charge of the team since 2009 and present Indian coach Duncan Fletcher had also helmed the English team for a period bordering eight years or so............
Shane Warne currently has both his hands full with his current assignment as the spin consultant to the Australian Cricket Team on it's current tour to the rainbow nation (South Africa) and is also committed to being the mentor to many a budding Aussie tweaker in the period leading up to the ICC World Twenty20 world cup which is slated to be held in Bangladesh in late March/April 2014...........
In the interim, many an English fan would certainly be hoping and praying that Shane Warne (the best captain that the Australian team never had) as legendary Aussie captain Ian Chappell termed him accepts the post without much ado and leads the bruised and battered English team into a new dawn following from it's 5-0 demolition in the recently concluded Ashes series down under...........
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