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Shane Warne Receives Driving Ban For A Year
By CricShots - Sep 23, 2019 7:26 pm
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On Monday, legendary Australian legspinner, Shane Warne was banned from driving for a year after his sixth speeding offense in a two-year period. The former leg-spinner has acknowledged of breaking a 40-miles-per-hour (64 kilometers-per-hour) limit in a hired Jaguar in London last year, a magistrates’ court heard.

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Shane Warne

Warne was clocked at 47mph at 6.29 am on a slip road on August 23. To make matters worse, Warne already had 15 penalty points on his license for five speeding offenses. As a result, Deputy District Judge gave a 12-month ban to Warne.

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Warne, who lives in west London, was also ordered to pay a total of 1,845 pounds ($3,000) to the court. Talking about his case, deputy district judge Adrian Turner said, “The purpose of disqualification is to punish and to protect the public and to deter,” Deputy District Judge Adrian Turner told the court. There are 15 points to take into account together with the three I must impose today. Between April 2016 and August last year, Warne committed six speeding offenses.”

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Shane has received a ban

He further added, “It may well be that none of its own were particularly serious but for points disqualification purposes the triviality of the offenses is not to be taken into account. A period of 12 months is necessary for the purposes I have mentioned.”

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Warne is considered one of the greatest spinners the world has ever seen. The legendary spinner scalped as many as 708 Test wickets and is only behind Muttiah Muralitharan for the record of most wickets taken by any bowler in Test cricket. He is also the only player to have scored more than 3,000 Test runs without a career century.