Australian cricket legend Shane Warne spent six months in Bristol playing for Imperial Cricket Club in 1989 and helped one local resident dig a pond in their garden.
Warne tragically passed away in March at the age of just 52 and a touching story about his time in Bristol has been shared on social media by England fan group the Barmy Army. The story reads: "Shane Warne played for the Imperial Cricket Club in Bristol when he was 18, sleeping in the pavilion at night, and helped out as a groundsman.
"One day he was checking the boundary and passing our house, which adjoins the Imperial ground, when he noticed my wife digging out a new garden pond. Offering to help, he jumped over the fence and spent the rest of the day helping her to complete the excavation.
