Beard Liberation Front
5th March
Tribute paid to Shane Warne, greatest ever spin bowler & beard wearer
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has paid tribute to Shane Warne the Australian cricketer who has died at 52.
Warne was by most measures the greatest ever spin bowler. In a Test career between 1992 and 2007 he took a record 708 wickets.
During his playing career Warne was invariably clean shaven. However after he retired from the game and became a cricket commentator amongst other pursuits, he was sometimes spotted wearing an outstanding gravitas enhancing beard.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, the beard was not central to Shane Warne’s life but as with his cricketing career, when he wore one he impressed
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