Shane Warne comes out of retirement for "Big Bash"

Less than six months after retiring from all cricket, the 42-year-old said he would play in the revamped league for the Melbourne Stars this season and has not ruled out continuing beyond that.

Image: Australian cricketer Shane Warne poses for a photo in Melbourne on November 8, 2011. Warne was announcing his return from retirement, joining Australia's new Big Bash League Twenty20 competition with the Melbourne Stars for at least one season. The cricket legend who retired from the Australian Test team in early 2007, said he wanted his three children, now aged 10, 12 and 14, to be able to see him at work and that it was an "added bonus" his fiance Liz Hurley would be there too.

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