Cricket legend to promote new Indian online poker venture

September 6, 2016

Cricket legend Shane Warne is combining two of his passions in his latest appointment – cricket and online poker. In a deal with the owners of Indian Premier League cricket team Rajasthan Royals, Raj Kundra and his movie star wife Shilpa Shetty, Warne has agreed to promote the couple’s latest venture, a real-money online poker […]

Cricket and poker ambassador Warne’s charity to be audited

January 24, 2016

Over the weekend the Sydney Morning Herald reported that the consumer watchdog for the Australian province of Victoria has ordered an independent audit of the Shane Warne Foundation following reports of inconsistent accounting and administration practices at the organisation, which assists ill or disadvantaged children. Forty-six-year-old Warne, an Australian cricketing legend and erstwhile online poker […]

Cricket legend departs 888Poker

January 6, 2015

International cricketing legend Shane Warne has left 888Poker after six years as its roving ambassador. In an almost offhand tweet this week the often controversial international celebrity and cricket star gave no reason for his decision to depart, but the split seems to have been amicable enough. Warne said he had enjoyed his association with […]