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Indian Express
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Shane Warne and his love for pizzas, son Jackson explains
The baked beans story of Shane Warne was just a myth. The legendary spinner had once narrated the real story of how the Australian cricket team received 1,900 cans of baked beans while they were on a tour of India in 1998 but after a request from their coach Geoff Marsh. Not Warne. 'Marsh rang Cricket Australia, Cricket Australia then rang the company and said, 'hey look the Australian boys need some baked beans and spaghetti to put on their toast in the mornings',' he said. 'We got three tonnes each … addressed 'Shane Warne, India'… so everyone thought I was desperate for baked beans, so it just stuck for the last 20 years.' But the wizard of spin loved his baked beans, margherita pizza and bacon sandwiches. Even dining in some of the finest restaurants in the world, he would simply pop out and order pizza. His son Jackson reveals such an incident in a podcast. 'You know [Japanese restaurant] Nobu and Rockpool at Crown?''Jackson said on the Life of Brian Podcast. 'There have been multiple times where he would have an important meeting or catching up with people there for dinner. He would go to the restaurants – he knew he wasn't going to eat anything – he would be looking at the menu [and saying], 'I don't eat steak, these fish and oysters, no thanks, not for me'. So 40 minutes later, there would be a pizza from Gradi, just around the corner. He would be eating a pizza from a different restaurant in one of the restaurants there,' he narrated. His great competitor friend Sachin Tendulkar too had a similar incident to recollect. 'I had invited Warnie over, said come to my place and we will have a nice meal. I checked if he is fine with Indian food and he said, 'Yeah, yeah! Don't worry'. I asked him if he is fine with spicy food and he said, avoid too much spicy stuff. I told the chef and he prepared accordingly,' said Tendulkar. The night, though, ended up with Tendulkar ordering pizza for him. 'We ended up ordering a pizza for him. He didn't want to hurt my feelings and kind of handled that well despite the food. He was never comfortable with Indian food, which is what I discovered that evening,' he said. Former teammate Brett Lee had also narrated a similar story of his . 'I remember going to that famous Japanese restaurant Nobu, and Warnie ordered a margherita pizza,' Lee said once said on the Willow Talk Cricket Podcast. 'Warnie only ever ate his baked beans, cheese on toast, he liked lasagna, spaghetti bolognese and margherita pizzas. We were going to one of the best restaurants in the world and Warnie, just being Warnie, decided to order margherita pizza. 'I don't think he ever ate one vegetable in his life.' Another highly circulated story was that he hosted a bunch of Cricket Australia officials and journalists at a high-end eatery. Every time the enthusiastic waiter approached him to take the order, he would wave him off. 'No thanks mate,' he said. 'I'm right.' Soon a pizza delivery person soon arrived and Warnie started nibbling into the cheese-heavy slices right there at the table. The waiter apologetically told him he can't eat them there. Warne smiled, took his pizza out of the restaurant, found a park bench and tucked into the meal and enjoyed a cigarette for dessert.
News18
14-05-2025
- Sport
- News18
Australia Cricketer Recalls 'Terrifying' Experience During IND-PAK Conflict
Last Updated: An IPL league match between Punjab Kings and Delhi Capitals was stopped midway as precautionary measure during the India-Pakistan conflict. Australia women cricket team captain Alyssa Healy has recalled how players, their families, member of support staff and others endured a 'terrifying' experience while being evacuated to a safe location from Dharamsala where an IPL 2025 match was abandoned due to the escalating tensions at the India-Pakistan border last week. A league match between Punjab Kings and Delhi Capitals was held at the HPCA Stadium in Dharamsala last Thursday and 10.1 overs into the fixture, the floodlights at the venue were switched off with the officials requesting the crowd to start leaving the venue as precautionary measure. The contest was abandoned. With the nearest airport in Dharamsala shut, the players and their families were taken via bus and then train to New Delhi from where Healy, wife of Delhi Capitals fast bowler Mitchell Starc, took a flight home. 'It was a surreal experience," Healy told Willow Talk Cricket Podcast. 'All of a sudden a couple of the light towers went out and we were just sitting there up the top (of the stadium) waiting." 'We're a large group of family and extra support staff and the next minute the guy who wrangles the group of us and gets us on the bus came up and his face was white. He was like, 'We need to go right now,'" she added. Healy said she they were kept inside a room for a while before leaving the venue. 'Then (another) guy came out and his face was white and he grabbed one of the children and said, 'We need to leave right now.' We were like, 'What's going on?' We weren't told anything. We had no idea. Next minute we are down being shuffled into this room which was like a holding pen. All the boys were in there. Faf didn't even have shoes on. We were all just waiting there looking stressed," Healy said. 'We ended up going south-west towards the border which was a little bit terrifying," Healy told Willow Talk. 'Mitch and I have played too much Call of Duty and we're noticing all the SAM (surface to air missile) sites that were just sitting there ready to go. They're radar-operated systems that shoot missiles at aircraft. (We saw) a few of them on the way through in some small towns," she added. With the two countries announcing ceasefire, the IPL will now resume later this week. First Published: May 14, 2025, 10:26 IST
