Warne to cut short his farwell summer

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The bulk of the campaign will be over before the great Australian spinner's other commitments allow him to turn out for the south coast county, whose captaincy he has already relinquished.

Hampshire farewell: Warne will only spend two months at the Rose Bowl this season

Warne will play at the Rose Bowl just in August and September after signing a lucrative deal to play for the new Indian Premier League, which will make its debut in April and May.

He will not even be there for the whole of the back end of the summer, as he will be absent for a week playing in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas - part of his role as a representative of a gaming firm in Australia.

Warne has never played Twenty20 cricket in England since it was introduced, so that rules out the period in the middle of the season.

"It has been said that the reason I won't be there is due to poker, but that's not true," said Warne, who was in St. Petersburg yesterday for the Laureus World Sports Awards. "The IPL was originally going to be in March and April but they have shifted it back into May and given that I don't play in the Twenty20 in England that only leaves August and September. I talked to Hampshire about it on my way over here."

Warne believes that international cricket will have no option but to schedule itself around the new league in all-powereful India.

"I actually think it will be good for the game and I'm hoping Twenty20 will have the same impact on one-day cricket, as the one-day game has had on Tests," he said. "For me 50 over cricket has just about gone, I think we should be playing 40 overs per side. I have played that in England and I think it's a really good form of the game."