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Title: Warne's Ready to Deliver
Author: Robert Craddock
Source: Herald Sun (October 7, 1995)

The new summer has brought fresh challenges for Australia's champion 
leg-spinner Shane Warne.

He must face up to the enigmatic Pakistan top order, then tackle Sri 
Lanka before priming himself for the World Cup.

Warne speaks to Robert Craddock

Robert Craddock:  Every summer seems to start with talk of you having 
a new delivery.  In total seriousness, is there anything cooking?

Shane Warne:  Yes, I am definately working on a new one but I am 
having problems with it in that I can only bowl it well over about 15 
metres.  It puts an enormous amount of work on my shoulder.  I 
catually bowled one last year to Graham Gooch  but it turned out to 
be a full toss and he hit it for four at the Gabba.

RC:   Is that the one you bowl in the nets where you sort of cut 
right under it and, with all the backspin, it just floats along like 
a soap sud in the breeze?

SW:  That might be it but you will just have to watch closely.

RC:  The last time you played Pakistan you did well though at times 
had stiff opposition.  How do you feel about the contest this time?

SW:  I feel quite confident against them.  The only bloke that really 
played me well was Salim Malik but he played everybody well.  He sort 
of had one of those series where if he nicked one it would get 
dropped.  He was just one of those tin-arse sort of lucky blokes.  He 
cost us the series but we were a chance to win every Test.  I got 18 
wickets in three Tests and I wouldn't mind doing that every time.  
I'll back myself against them because they have a bit of a go.  I'm 
not greatly into statistics but in a three Test series you might be 
happy to get between 15 and 18 wickets.  Sometimes your average might 
be 28 instead of 22 but the main thing is that you get them.

RC:  At the end of the last series Malik did an article in England 
about how to play Shane Warne.  He is gone now but are you 
disappointed there is no chance to square the ledger?

SW:  I would not mind having another crack at him, particularly 
considering what he said about how easy it is to play me and how he 
couldn't understand what the fuss was about.  He might be able to 
pick me but there is more to it than that - the wrong 'un or the 
top-spinner might turn or bounce more than he expects.

People can say what they like.  At the end of the day you make up 
your own mind whether you can bowl or not.

RC:  The whole Malik drama seemed to take a lot out of you.  How do 
you feel about it now?

SW:  It was something very unfortunate.  I'm glad it's behind me but 
it's still lingering in my mind.  The Pakistanis are an interesting 
team in that they fight among themselves.  I don't know whether they 
will do the same thing now that Salim and a few others are gone.

RC:  Do you have any fears about returning to the subcontinent for 
the World Cup?

SW:  Yes.  Touch wood, that I am selected but I don't feel fully 100 
per cent confident.  I have a few worries about going over there.  
But as long as there is some good security I am sure there will be no 
problems.

RC:  Do you ever regret making the move to inform the authorities 
about Malik?

SW:  I was a bit disappointed the way it came out.  We had to do what 
we had to do because of certain reasons.  That is the end of it 
hopefully.

RC:  As you grow in experience, Test bastsmen are facing you for the 
second time.  Are their attitudes changing?

SW:  The Poms faced me for the second time last year and I felt I had 
a pretty good year even though I had a down period with my shoulder 
over Christmas.  I had to work hard for my wickets in the West 
Indies.  In Trinidad I ownly bowled eight overs for the match so it 
was virtually a non-event.  Effectively I took 15 wickets in three 
Tests, which was not a bad result and I thought it was great the way 
it was a team effort.  Glenn McGrath did tremendously to take 17 
wickets and people say I had a bad series with 15.

RC:  Your wedding day was the obvious highlight of your off-season.  
You wanted a very private day yet your photos appeared in a women's 
magazine.  Was that planned?

SW:  No.  It was very disappointing because I made a point of asking 
people to respect our privacy.  I got offers of up to $100,000 from 
England (to photograph the wedding) and we turned them down.  
Magazines asked us could we dress up for photos two or three days 
earlier and we said "no, it is our day, it's private".  And it was 
like a circus.  I was very disappointed with those magazine photos 
but we know who did it and it is in the hands of our lawyers.

RC:  I was watching a tape of the 1993 Ashes tour recently and the 
thing that stood out was the amount of savage wrist work you were 
putting on the ball.  Can you keep that up?

SW:  People think it is easy for me because I only come off a couple 
of steps but you really feel it in your leg, knee, back, shoulders, 
wrist and fingers...everywhere.  They get tired.  You just can't keep 
doing it.  I am trying but even as the moment I have a little niggle 
in my finger.

Hopefully it is just a sign of me getting into the bowling again but 
I am not sure.  I go out and bust my guts every day.

RC:  Surely you can't keep up those 40-over per innings stints?

SW:  Physically and stamina-wise I can but my effectiveness does go 
off.  You can get flat.  But if you are bowling well, why not?

RC:  A lot of our Test cricketers have become so busy that many are 
saying they need the season to start to take a break from business 
commitments.  How about you?

SW:  I suppose I have learned to adapt.  I have learned when to say 
yes and no.  It is all about managing time.  The secret us to pick 
the right things.  If I said yes to everything I wouldn't have a 
spare minute.

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