ICC Australia 7th June 2005
Warne will unveil a portrait of himself at Lord's tomorrow and the painting will hang alongside Don Bradman and Keith Miller in the pavilion. The oil-on-linen work, which took artist Fanny Rush ten months to complete, because of Shane's return to Australia during the process, was commissioned by MCC to keep the collection fresh.
"The contribution to cricket made by Shane Warne has been immense, and it is only right that he should be represented," Lord Fellowes, the chairman of the MCC Arts and Library Sub-Committee, said. "I am sure that this portrait will be much admired during the coming Ashes series, and in the future."
Rush said she knew how to portray Warne the moment she heard about the commission. "I knew his reputation as a fearsome bowler, and I envisaged him in the portrait as if seen from a batsman's point of view, bearing down formidably and with supreme confidence," she said. "Over the months that it took to complete the painting, I got to know him as a person, too. He is a delightful man, and I feel that I have also caught this aspect of him in the portrait."

The Age Australia 9th June 2005
Warne was speaking at the unveiling of a portrait of himself by artist Fanny Rush in the Long Room at Lord's. Next month he will become the first non-English player to walk past a portrait of himself in that history-laden room before playing a Test on the hallowed turf.
And he certainly has become the first player past or present to unveil his portrait there while sporting dyed hair, earring and clutching a packet of Benson and Hedges.
"Maybe a few of the members might throw darts at (the portrait), but I like to think most of the members will be pretty happy with it," he said.
"I look in the mirror every morning at my ugly dial, so now I've just got to look at it when I'm playing cricket at Lord's as well."
"Just don't let Brett Lee with a black texta near it, I might have a moustache like Merv (Hughes) by the end of it."