Warne's mentor Jenner dies

25 May,2011 01:01 PM IST |   |  AFP

Former Australian Test cricketer Terry Jenner, who helped turn Shane Warne into one of the world's greatest bowlers, died Wednesday aged 66.


Former Australian Test cricketer Terry Jenner, who helped turn Shane Warne into one of the world's greatest bowlers, died Wednesday aged 66.

Legspinner Jenner suffered a massive heart attack while coaching in England in April 2010 and never fully regained his health, passing away at his home in Adelaide, Cricket Australia said in a statement.

While he played nine Tests in the 1970s, Jenner was better known as the only Australian Test cricketer to be jailed -- spending two years behind bars for embezzlement.

He turned his life around after meeting Warne, who he started coaching in the early 1990s, and was regularly on hand to refine the Test great's action during his record-breaking career.

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