Petition to welcome Shane Warne into knighthood
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An online petition has emerged with calls to bestow the Australian sporting hero with highest honour.
An online petition is calling on an amendment to the constitution to allow cricketing legend, Shane Warne to be posthumously honoured with the title of knighthood.
The Change.org petition was created by David Tieck three years ago but has been reignited with interest since the sudden passing of the beloved Australian cricketer.
So far, the petition has just 372 signatures, but the campaign has the support of a few big names.
Former Good Morning Britain host, Piers Morgan has come out in support of the push to knight Shane Warne, citing his services to cricket and charity.
There is just one thing standing in the way of bestowing the honour – the Constitution dictates that knighthoods can only be awarded to the living.
Shane Warne himself had toyed with the idea of knighthood in his column in London’s Daily Telegraph.
“I‘m not quite sure what the future holds but I do note that the other four men who were chosen in Wisden’s Five Cricketers Of The Century are all Sirs,” Warne wrote.
“Perhaps my knighthood has been lost in the post”.
The petition has appealed on Queen Elizabeth, Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison and leader of the Opposition, Anthony Albanese to move swiftly to amend the Constitution.
