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SYDNEY - Australian cricket great Shane Warne has denied claims he used Botox or had a facelift, saying his youthful look was to do with moisturisers, healthy eating and exercise. The 41-year-old, who reportedly had a recent affair with British actress Liz Hurley, has appeared with more luminous skin in recent photographs, sparking rumours that he may have gone under the knife. But Warne, currently playing for the Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League, said it was nonsense.

NEW DELHI - Australian spin legend Shane Warne on Wednesday denied media reports that he was interested in coaching World Cup champions India.
"Just got told on bus - apparently I put my hand up to coach India. Wow - first I have heard of it - Sorry to disappoint but never said that!!!" Warne tweeted.
Leg-spinner Warne, 41, is in the country to take part in the Indian Premier League where he leads the Rajasthan Royals franchise in the lucrative Twenty20 competition, starting

NEW DELHI - Australian leg-spin legend Shane Warne has shown interest in coaching World Cup champions India, local media reported on Wednesday.
"It is a very difficult job to be India coach, it is never easy," Warne was quoted as saying in the Mail Today newspaper.
"But with India doing so well, it is a lot easier to take over right now than it has been in the past. I'll enjoy working with the Indian cricket team for sure."
Warne is in the country to take part in the

SYDNEY - New Australia captain Michael Clarke is an astute cricket tactician but will need to be more formal and firm in his man-management, according to spin-bowling great Shane Warne. Clarke was appointed Australia's 43rd test captain on Wednesday in place of Ricky Ponting, who had resigned a day earlier, and departs with his first squad to Bangladesh for three one-dayers on Monday.
Warne, who took 708 test wickets in a glittering career and remains a highly influential voice

SYDNEY - New Australia captain Michael Clarke is an astute cricket tactician but will need to be more "formal and firm" in his man-management, according to spin-bowling great Shane Warne.
Clarke was appointed Australia's 43rd test captain on Wednesday in place of Ricky Ponting, who had resigned a day earlier, and departs with his first squad to Bangladesh for three one-dayers on Monday.
Warne, who took 708 test wickets in a glittering career and remains a highly

NEW DELHI - After FIFA World Cup's Paul Octopus, Shane Warne played the perfect oracle, as much before the India-England match started in Bangalore, the former Australia spinner predicted it would be a tie. Warne wrote on his Twitter account, "Looking forward to the game between india and England today should be a cracker.. My prediction a tie!" And so it was, when England made 338 for 8 in 50 overs in reply to India's 338 all out in 49.5 overs. Zaheer Khan was the last man to fall

MELBOURNE: England's Kevin Pietersen Wednesday said Australia's current team could not out-sledge Test greats Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath, dismissing a sharp rise in verbal clashes during the Ashes series.
Pietersen said he had faced some "pretty big verbal contests" during England's last tour of Australia, when the legendary bowlers were still playing, but had seen nothing unusual in this year's Tests. Both teams have acknowledged raised temperatures during the home team's

PERTH: Australian spin maestro Shane Warne believes Australia have made a mistake in overlooking Michael Beer for the third Ashes Test in Perth and instead electing to field a four-man pace attack, with the slow bowling duties left to all-rounder Steve Smith.
Warne wrote on his Twitter account: "Very, very surprised Australia playing five quicks and Smith ... No Beer is a big surprise," wrote Warne on his Twitter account.
"Three quicks, Watson, Smith and Beer gives Ricky

SYDNEY: Australian spin bowler Shane Warne Monday confirmed he had split from his ex-wife, amid reports of an alleged "affair" with British actress Liz Hurley.
Warne and his former wife Simone Callahan, who have three children together, divorced some time ago but had rekindled their romance and shared a home together in his home town of Melbourne.
But after video and photographs of Warne and Hurley apparently kissing and cuddling together in London last week were published,

LONDON: Legendary leg-spinner Shane Warne has labelled calls for his return to Test cricket in a bid to boost Australia's flagging Ashes hope as "very flattering".
But he has also said Australia should now think about handing a debut to left-arm spinner Michael Beer. Warne, 41, has not played Test cricket since retiring following Australia's 5-0 whitewash of England on home soil in 2007. Australia's all-time leading Test wicket-taker, with 708 in 145 matches, Warne has hinted at

MELBOURNE: Embattled Australian captain Ricky Ponting is the right man to regain the Ashes from England, according to former leg-spinner Shane Warne.
Ponting returned to Australia to fierce criticism from former players and media pundits after their 2-0 series loss to India, which saw them slump to fifth in the test rankings, and suggestions he should relinquish the test captaincy.
Warne himself had questioned Ponting's tactics on Twitter during Australia's seven-wicket loss