The Worlds Best Spin bowler of all time Shane Warne today announced his retirement from cricket effective after the Sydey test match.

Warne currently has 699 test wickets which is a world record and he is poised to get his 700 wicket in front of his home crowd at the MCG from boxing day.

Warne is one of world crickets most controversial people having been banned in 2003 for drug use and being caught up in many text message scandals and having affairs with women and the divorce from his wife where all things that made warne such a character.