Given my attitude to sport, and cricket in particular, the death of Shane Warne was never going to affect me. But I'm still surprised at the degree of the outpouring of grief over a bloke whose claim to fame all revolved around (as far as I can tell) a particular wrist motion.
It's a funny world:
In a stage show of tears and laughter, Shane Warne's immortality was confirmed
OK, OK, he did charitable things and was nice to people, generally speaking, it seems. But it still comes down to fame over a wrist motion. It's a bit like, I don't know, someone becoming incredibly famous as a pub dart champion.
There's something about celebrity funerals, and something about sport writing, that naturally seems to bring out the most exaggerated and saccharine tones in the reports, isn't there.
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