Calls are growing for Shane Warne to be granted a knighthood
Give Warnie a knighthood! Calls for the constitution to be amended so Shane Warne can get the highest honour
- Petition calling for Shane Warne to be honoured with knighthood resurfaced
- Campaign started three years ago but regained momentum after Warne’s death
- Former Daily Mail Australia editor Piers Morgan tweeted his support for honour
A petition is calling for an amendment to the constitution to allow Shane Warne to be posthumously honoured with the title of knighthood.
The petition was launched three years ago, but interest has reignited since the passing of the cricket legend.
Former Daily Mail Australia editor at large, Piers Morgan, came out in support, highlighting his services to cricket and charity.
‘Shane Warne was the only one of Wisden’s 5 greatest cricketers of 20th Century not to be knighted,’ Morgan explained.
A petition is calling for an amendment to the constitution to allow Shane Warne to be posthumously honoured with the title of knighthood (pictured, Shane Warne with Emily Sears)
Former Daily Mail Australia editor at large, Piers Morgan, came out in support, highlighting his services to cricket and charity
‘He wasn’t Mother Teresa but if Gavin bloody Williamson can get a gong then so should Warnie, posthumously, for services to cricket & charity. Make it happen.’
The constitution dictates a knighthood can only be awarded to the living.
Warne had poked fun at the fact he was the only person who was not a knight who had been named in Wisden’s Five Cricketers Of The Century.
Sir Donald Bradman, sir Garfield Sobers, sir Jack Hobbs, sir Vivian Richards were the other four cricketers included on the list.
‘I’m not quite sure what the future holds but I do note that the other four men who were chosen in Wisden’s Five Cricketers Of The Century are all Sirs,’ Warne wrote in a column for The Daily Telegraph. ‘Perhaps my knighthood has been lost in the post’.
The petition argued there was no excuse for Warne to not be awarded the honour.
‘Mr Warne’s credentials for this honor speak for themselves,’ it read. ‘708 test wickets. 1319 first class wickets. Hundreds of one day wickets.
‘Ashes trophies, World Cups, beating the mighty West Indies in the West Indies, the getting out on 99, the flipper, the champagne on the balcony, the bunnies, the baked beans, the lifestyle, the romances, the life, the man, the legend.
‘And that’s just his cricket. He’s also a philanthropist, a journalist, easily the best commentator going around today, an entertainer, a larrikin, and an all around Australian hero.’
Warne had poked fun at the fact he was the only person who was not a knight who had been named in Wisden’s Five Cricketers Of The Century
Sir Donald Bradman, sir Garfield Sobers, sir Jack Hobbs, sir Vivian Richards were the other four cricketers included on the list
Warne will be posthumously awarded one of Australia’s highest accolades in the next Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
Daily Mail Australia revealed last week that the game’s greatest spin bowler had never formally been honoured by his country while he was living.
Warne, who died aged 52 in a luxury villa in Thailand on March 4, will be posthumously awarded the honour in the next Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
He will likely be made an Officer or Member of the Order of Australia, the second and third highest levels in the award system respectively.
Appointments in the Order of Australia are not usually made posthumously but if a candidate is put forward before his or her death their nomination can still be considered.
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