Shane Keith Warne (born 13 September 1969) is a former Australian international cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest bowler (Bowler (cricket))s in the history of the game. In 2000, he was selected by a panel of cricket experts as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Century, the only specialist bowler selected in the quintet.

Warne played his first Test match (Test cricket) in 1992, and his 708 wickets was the record (List of Test cricket records#Career) for the most wickets taken by any bowler in Test cricket, until it was broken by Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka national cricket team)s Muttiah Muralitharan on 3 December 2007. He took over 1000 international wickets (in Tests and One-Day Internationals)—he was the second bowler to reach this milestone after Muttiah Muralitharan. A useful lower-order batsman, Warne also scored over 3000 Test runs, and he holds the record for most Test runs without a century. His career was plagued by scandals off the field; these included a ban from cricket for testing positive for a prohibited substance, and charges of bringing the game into disrepute through accepting money from bookmakers (John the bookmaker controversy) and marital infidelities.

As well as Australia (Australia national cricket team), he also played Australian domestic cricket for his home state of Victoria (Victorian Bushrangers), and English domestic cricket for Hampshire (Hampshire County Cricket Club). He was captain of Hampshire for three seasons, from 2005 to 2007.

He retired from international cricket in January 2007, at the end of Australias 5-0 Ashes series victory (2006-07 Ashes series) over England (England cricket team). Three other players integral to the Australian team of recent years, Glenn McGrath, Damien Martyn and Justin Langer, also retired from Tests at the same time which led some, prompting the Australian captain, Ricky Ponting, to declare it the "end of an era".

Following his retirement from international cricket, Warne played a full season at Hampshire in 2007. He had been scheduled to appear in the 2008 English cricket season, but in late March 2008 he announced his retirement from playing first-class cricket in order to be able to spend more time pursuing interests outside of cricket. In March 2008, Warne signed to play in the Indian Premier League for the Jaipur team, Rajasthan Royals in the first edition of the tournament, where he played the roles of both captain and coach. He led his team to victory against the Chennai Super Kings in a cliffhanger of a final match on 1 June 2008.