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Return of the King: Warne comes back
Melbourne, Feb 11: Australia`s newspapers hailed Shane Warne`s comeback from a 12-month doping ban as the ``return of the king`` today in a story that dominated the front pages of the national dailies.
Melbourne, Feb 11: Australia's newspapers hailed
Shane Warne's comeback from a 12-month doping ban as the ''return
of the king'' today in a story that dominated the front pages of
the national dailies.
Warne made 11 with the bat for Victoria against Queensland
on tuesday and also took a slip catch. But
he did not bowl because rain forced an early end to the day's
play.
Top-selling Melbourne tabloid The Herald Sun, which boasts
Warne as a columnist, hailed the ''return of the king''. It also
showed the smiling leg spinner surrounded by television cameras
with the caption: ''Shane Warne is back''.
Inside on page seven, the newspaper ran two more
photographs, one of Australia's leading wicket-taker gazing
skywards and another of wife Simone looking on from the stands
at Melbourne's junction oval.
Two more pages of Warne photographs in the sports section
showed him batting, fielding in the slips and shaking hands with
umpire Paul Reiffel, his former test team mate.
National broadsheet The Australian showed Warne, 34, looking up at the drizzle in a large front-page photograph below a heading: ''Sky's the limit to Warne's comeback''.
The Australian also showed Warne on its back page, walking proudly out to field in his designer sunglasses and blue Victoria cap.
Melbourne broadsheet The Age ran large photographs of test cricket's second highest wicket-taker on its front and back pages, showing Warne giving a Churchillian two-fingered salute to applause from fans as he walked out to field.
The age's back-page heading was ''what's all this, a reign delay?''
Warne was banned last year after testing positive for a diuretic, which can be used to mask other drugs, in the biggest doping scandal to hit cricket.
Bureau Report
National broadsheet The Australian showed Warne, 34, looking up at the drizzle in a large front-page photograph below a heading: ''Sky's the limit to Warne's comeback''.
The Australian also showed Warne on its back page, walking proudly out to field in his designer sunglasses and blue Victoria cap.
Melbourne broadsheet The Age ran large photographs of test cricket's second highest wicket-taker on its front and back pages, showing Warne giving a Churchillian two-fingered salute to applause from fans as he walked out to field.
The age's back-page heading was ''what's all this, a reign delay?''
Warne was banned last year after testing positive for a diuretic, which can be used to mask other drugs, in the biggest doping scandal to hit cricket.
Bureau Report