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Warne awaits the 600th

Reuters, Birmingham
You have to go back around five-and-a-half years to find a Test match in which Shane Warne failed to take a wicket.
In 12 years of playing England, it has never happened.
So, barring miracles or freak injuries -- the Old Trafford ground staff are probably at this very moment sowing the outfield with as many cricket and golf balls, marbles, abandoned cars and fridge freezers that they can find -- Warne will become the first man in history to take 600 Test wickets this week.
Australia's leg spinner has always dealt in improbabilities, so the landmark delivery will probably be as extraordinary as the 'Ball of the Century' which dismissed Mike Gatting at the same venue in 1993.
That ball, drifting outside leg stump and exploding back past the disbelieving Gatting to clip off stump, was Warne's first in Ashes cricket.
"Old Trafford has been a happy hunting ground for me. It's given me one of my special memories in 15 years of international cricket," says Warne.
"I don't know who writes my scripts but going back to Old Trafford, with 599 wickets and my parents coming over... I think I'll get at least one wicket."
One thing is certain. There will be a prolonged standing ovation, which will echo around the cricketing world. Even his victim might be tempted to join in.
Despite themselves, the English cannot help but love Warne. Perhaps it is the attraction of opposites. They look at him in awe and wonder, wondering how he works.
How can it be that a man can still aspire to a professional high-point
while his personal life has crashed to an all-time low?
The 35-year-old Warne separated from his wife following reports of another extra-marital dalliance just before the series began.
When former England batsman Graham Thorpe's marriage disintegrated before the last Ashes, he withdrew with his teammates' full sympathy and understanding.
The Australian, though, surgically bisecting the public persona from the private one, went out and took 16 wickets in the next two Tests. Adam Gilchrist said he was bowling as well as ever.
Warne has beggared belief before during a controversial career.
Before the 2003 World Cup he was banned for 12 months for taking a diuretic. Some believed it was linked to his attempt to rush back from shoulder surgery. Warne,
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'Hollywood' to his teammates, put it down to vanity and a slimming pill.
He was written off but Warne, his powers supposedly waning, has returned with 108 wickets in 18 Tests since, at an average of 23.13., most of those wickets taken on good batting tracks.
As Warne explains: "Over the last few years there hasn't been much five-day cricket so I'm not exploiting the conditions late on the fourth day and on the fifth.
"I'm bowling a lot more on day one, two and three at the moment. It means I must be doing something pretty right."
Warne's popularity is probably based on the perception that, at heart, he is a rather ordinary individual, with everyday weaknesses.
He seems to have struggled to
mature. He was laughed at when, nervous of experimentation, he had a cargo of baked beans sent out while on tourin India.
But there was warmth to the laughter, just as in the 1999 World Cup when English crowds goaded the ample Warne with chants of "save the whale!"
This season at Hampshire he has made friends with men far younger than himself, including England's Kevin Pietersen. He has had treatment to prevent a bald patch emerging in his peroxide locks.
Some Australians, though, have tired of their man-child and his off-the-field antics, so much so that Warne has talked of moving permanently to England.
Getting to 600 first will mean a great deal.
He says he is not a "stats man" but would have winced when Sri Lankan
spinner Muttiah Muralitharan overhauled Courtney Walsh's previous world record of 519 wickets first.
Warne has forged clear since. Few doubt that Muralitharan, with 549 wickets, will ultimately overhaul him but for this week Warne will have the stage to himself.
It is a stage he loves. Thorpe hated publicity. Warne throws himself at it. He also seems to want to be loved in return, making him prone to flattery (which may explain his involvement in match-fixing allegations during the early part of his career).
At Old Trafford this week, Warne will delight in public adulation. He will take that wicket and the world will rise.
His cricketing life, like many of his leg breaks threaten to do, will have come full circle.