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"Can I have a chat before you leave?" I asked as the party in Perth died down. He replied: "Yeah, what about?" Sensing what I was about to say, he hastily added: "No, no, I am not talking to you, I am not talking to you, I am not talking to you." He didn't want to hear the news.

I just said: "Look mate, it's time to retire." He couldn't believe it and was in shock. "What are you talking about?"

In The Age Greg Baum compares Warne’s departure to Ian Thorpe’s and he writes with Chloe Saltau in the Sydney Morning Herald the news did not come as a complete surprise to Cricket Australia.

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