Amid death rumors, cricketer Shane Watson is hale and hearty as a horse.
Shane Watson is a former cricket player who represented Australia in international matches. He was also an occasional captain for the national team and has a huge name in the sports world. For five consecutive years, he was named the highest-paid cricketer as a non-Indian from 2011 to 2015.
He began his career in 2002 and played until 2016 when he was a right-handed fast-medium swing bowler and right-hand fast-medium swing bowler. With numerous records in T20Is, T20s, and ODIs.
Shane Watson Dead Or Still Alive?
Even though Twitter is filled with tributes and obituaries to Shane Watson, the cricketer is still alive and not dead. It was a small misunderstanding that became big after pranksters on social media got along with it.
Shane Watson shares his first name with a senior cricketer Shane Warne who recently passed away. Both being big names in the Australian cricket realm, Warne’s death got mistaken for Watson’s death.
Social media is a place where small misunderstandings turn big in no time at all. The same happened in this case as well. Avid memers and trollers started playing along to seem cool on Twitter. With ‘RIP Shane Warne’, the picture of Shane Watson is going viral which is completely inappropriate.
Australian Cricketer Shane Watson Death Hoax Debunked
As fake death news of big celebrities is not a new thing, Shane Watson is added to the list as well now. Big names like Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran are already in it.
As his picture is used captioning the death of another cricket legend, people have addressed it calling it another death hoax. While some netizens are actually confused, some are doing it for attention and few numbers of likes which is morally wrong.
The family of the deceased is mourning his death and the other one is brought into the picture for all the wrong reasons. As news sites have already talked about the issue, Shane Watson’s death hoax gets debunked.
Shane Watson Wikipedia
Shane Watson is a former Australian cricket player born on 17 June 1981 in Ipswich, Queensland. He is 40 years old in the year 2022 and he announced his retirement 2 years ago.
6 feet tall Shane is considered one of the most influential people in the sports world and has a huge fan following. His nickname is Watto.