"We enter a vast room of metal shelving units and huge tables. There are boxes and bags. There are hats, helmets, bats and stumps, boots and balls. So many balls. There's a real poignancy to it, says Smith. He was actually curating all this stuff as he went. He was a maverick, in the very truest sense of the word, but he was methodical too."
"The night before Holland and his podcast partner, Dominic Sandbrook, had played the Sydney Opera House. They are fresh off the plane to Melbourne with a gig at the Palais Theatre in St Kilda later that evening, a few hundred yards from the very cricket ground where Warne first bamboozled with those fizzing leg-breaks. Holland is a huge cricket fan and bowls devastating medium pace for the Authors CC."
Tom Holland, his wife Sadie and producer Dominic Sandbrook receive exclusive behind-the-scenes access to items for the Shane Warne Treasures of a Legend exhibition at the Australian Sports Museum inside the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Jed Smith, the museum manager, guides them through storage filled with hats, helmets, bats, stumps, boots and many balls, conveying a poignant atmosphere. Warne habitually emptied his kitbag after series, often with Simone's assistance, and personally curated much of the material. The collection reflects Warne's maverick personality alongside a surprisingly methodical approach to preserving his cricket memorabilia.
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