In 1987, during the cricket off-season, he played five games of Australian rules football for the St Kilda Football Club's under-19 team. He was delisted in the 1988 Victorian Football League season by St Kilda.
He made his international debut on 2nd January 1990 at Sydney, in a test match against India.
Warne first caught eyeballs when playing for the Australia B squad. He took his first first-class five wicket haul as he took 7/49 against Zimbabwe.
On 2nd January 1994, Warne took 12 wickets in the second Test match against South Africa.
Warne was the ODI captain of Australia between 1998 and 1999. In the 11 games he captained, Warne won 10 and lost one, having a win percentage of 90.91%.
A day before the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup, Warne failed a drug test, returning positive for a banned diuretic, after which he was sent home. He faced a one-year ban from organised cricket.
He was the first player ever to reach 600 wickets in the most extended format, and he also got 600 in the T20 form.
His first 700 Test wickets came in 2006 when he became the first bowler to accomplish this feat.
Warne held the record for most wickets (708) in Test cricket until December 2007, when he was surpassed by Muralitharan.
He was also the second person to take 1000 wickets in International cricket after Muralitharan.
Warne also holds the record of scoring the most runs (3154) without scoring a century.
Shane was named BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year for 2005.
In 2008, Warne signed for the Rajasthan Royals in the inaugural edition of the IPL. He was appointed their captain and he guided them to the title.
Warne retired from international cricket in 2007, but continued to play club and county cricket.
He retired from first class cricket in 2008, after which Warne became a sports commentator for Nine cricket commentary team before signing for Sky Sports in 2009.
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