Shane Warne dead at 52

[CricAddict]

The other story I'd forgotten is how the 'dropped the World Cup' moment in 99 was predicted by Warnie. You can't even fathom how good a cricket brain you have to have to be able to pinpoint that an opponent,one you don't play against that much, throws the ball away quickly and to not stand for it if he catches it that way...then it happens. Absolute freak.

You can talk up his ability and rightly so, but who could you put up with him in terms of being able to read a game? Not many.

Wow. I am hearing this for the first time. So before it happened, Warne predicted that Gibbs will throw the ball early for it to be deemed not out? Any article on that?

 

[Burgey]

He spoke of it in the team meeting the night before the game apparently.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Wow. I am hearing this for the first time. So before it happened, Warne predicted that Gibbs will throw the ball early for it to be deemed not out? Any article on that?

I am extremely sceptical about that one

 

[CricAddict]

I am extremely sceptical about that one

Yeah. It is too good a prediction to be true.

 

[Daemon]

Nah it's true he told me

 

[Gnske]

The absolute PEAK of commentary

 

[SteveNZ]

Wow. I am hearing this for the first time. So before it happened, Warne predicted that Gibbs will throw the ball early for it to be deemed not out? Any article on that?

We all thought he was nuts’: How ‘Nostradamus’ Warne predicted THAT dropped catch

‘We all thought he was nuts’: ‘Nostradamus’ moment that stunned Warne’s teammates

www.foxsports.com.au

Posted in 2019, so it's not like it's a myth someone invented after his passing.

 

[CricAddict]

We all thought he was nuts’: How ‘Nostradamus’ Warne predicted THAT dropped catch

‘We all thought he was nuts’: ‘Nostradamus’ moment that stunned Warne’s teammates

www.foxsports.com.au

Posted in 2019, so it's not like it's a myth someone invented after his passing.

This is seriously ****ing awesome, though Mark Waugh also added a rider there that he makes a lot of such predictions. But this is a really good one.

 

[Son Of Coco]

What part of "foot" massage do you guys not understand?

I saw him earlier on in the day in the villa, and it looked more like 8 or 9 inches to me.

 

[Son Of Coco]

It would be the equivalent of if the day after (heaven forbid) Sachin dies some Aussie/English great says "he never got a hundred at Lords...Lara, Ponting and Kallis were better"

Totally idiotic.

A better response would be "I'm not entirely sure where Sunil ranks as a batsman, but he was one of the biggest ***** of all time".

 

[Spikey]

We all thought he was nuts’: How ‘Nostradamus’ Warne predicted THAT dropped catch

‘We all thought he was nuts’: ‘Nostradamus’ moment that stunned Warne’s teammates

www.foxsports.com.au

Posted in 2019, so it's not like it's a myth someone invented after his passing.

It's been canon far longer than that, disappointed I can't find a earlier reference

 

[quincywagstaff]

The other story I'd forgotten is how the 'dropped the World Cup' moment in 99 was predicted by Warnie. You can't even fathom how good a cricket brain you have to have to be able to pinpoint that an opponent,one you don't play against that much, throws the ball away quickly and to not stand for it if he catches it that way...then it happens. Absolute freak.

You can talk up his ability and rightly so, but who could you put up with him in terms of being able to read a game? Not many.

This all stems from an Oz v SA ODI during the 1997/98 season where Warne was out caught by Gibbs and he did that stupid ball flick.

iirc the commentators said that Warne hung around at the crease waiting for a moment or two before the umpires confirmed the dismissal. I'm certain this was in Warne's mind when he brought this up.

 

[OverratedSanity]

I maintain that it should have counted as a legit completed catch.

 

[GotSpin]

I maintain that it should have counted as a legit completed catch.

Negative

 

[Gnske]

It's like pissing with the elastic pressed against your shaft and creating a weak stream.

It never counts as a real piss.

 

[OverratedSanity]

It's like pissing with the elastic pressed against your shaft and creating a weak stream.

It never counts as a real piss.

No Gnske it's like pissing perfectly into the toilet and at the end one tiny drop falls onto the floor because you were a tad too eager to finish it off and zip up.

That's still a valid piss.

 

[Victor Ian]

No - that is an illegal piss, as any wife/girlfriend/mother will attest to.

 

[vicleggie]

We all thought he was nuts’: How ‘Nostradamus’ Warne predicted THAT dropped catch

‘We all thought he was nuts’: ‘Nostradamus’ moment that stunned Warne’s teammates

www.foxsports.com.au

Posted in 2019, so it's not like it's a myth someone invented after his passing.

Jeez he was such a smart, observant son of a gun. Special guy

 

[chris.hinton]

That match is up there with the greatest of all time

 

[StephenZA]

We all thought he was nuts’: How ‘Nostradamus’ Warne predicted THAT dropped catch

‘We all thought he was nuts’: ‘Nostradamus’ moment that stunned Warne’s teammates

www.foxsports.com.au

Posted in 2019, so it's not like it's a myth someone invented after his passing.

Not to take away from the big man but it was well known that Gibbs did this and had been commented on plenty in the SA media and fans, asking him not to do it. It was actually something that was seen a lot in the domestic game, people throwing the ball before in full control.

Also, did Warne not say that he actually thought Gibbs catch was fair?