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August 13, 2003

Shane's Shenanigans

From being the world's top leg-spinner to being branded one of the world's worst sportspersons, Shane Warne (right) has seen it all.

The slide began in 1998 when he and team mate Mark Waugh revealed that they had been fined Aus $8000 by the Australian Cricket Board in 1995 for selling to an Indian bookmaker information about the pitch condition and the weather during the team's 1994 tour of Sri Lanka.

Warne said at the time: "I have always strived to do the best I can for my country and I think that the way I've played and conducted myself on the field shows that I'm a cricketer with integrity, who has never given anything but his best."

The man in the middle is Malcolm Speed, then chief executive of the Australian Cricket Board and currently chief executive of the International Cricket Council.

Images: Getty Images | Text: Harish Kotian

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