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Twenty-four hours ago, arguably the greatest living cricketer made a series of claims and criticisms against the Australian cricket team which have since been proven to be unfounded and downright incorrect.

Shane Warne lashed out at the batting line up in particular last night as he gave the tourists zero chance of pulling off one of the greatest Test draws of all time.

The Advocate reached out to the outspoken Victorian’s publisher, Penguin, for comment as the cover appeared to change from a book signing yesterday to one that Warne attended this morning.

“We were insured against this type of event, thank God,” said a Penguin spokesperson.

“Shane has gone and shit the bed again, right when we didn’t need him to. Anyway, we’ve had to update the cover somewhat to reflect this. We just changed the jacket, not the whole thing,”

“That’d be crazy. Regardless, I hope that he doesn’t have to eat his own words again on this book tour. That’d take the gravy off the lamb, for sure.”

Our reporter reached out to Warne himself but his publicist from Penguin said it wouldn’t be happening – so we DM’d his Instagram posing as a gorgeous British Airways air hostess.

After a short amount of chit chat and niceties, our reporter put the question to Shane.

“What does it feel like to eat humble pie today after what you said about the Australian cricket team overnight?”

Instagram indicated that Shane started typing, then deleted what he wrote, then started typing again.

This went on for nearly 10 minutes.

“Nah baby,” he wrote.

“I was only joking. They’re OK. Sometimes the tastiest pie is humble pie. It’s all good.”

More to come.