Hampshire County Cricket Club begun on Hampshire's long-awaited new ground. The realisation of this move almost led the club to financial ruin, as encouragement from financial partners Sport England and the hiring of architect Sir Michael Hopkins had led the then part-time voluntary committee running the club to lose control of the budget. In 2000 Australian great Shane Warne was signed as the club's overseas player. The 2000 County Championship was to be the last season that Hampshire would play at the County Ground Southampton before they moved in 2001 to the new Rose Bowl ground just outside Southampton. 2001 also saw current club
Shane Warne January 2015. In 2009 Warne started an underwear line called Spinners. In February 2016 Warne stated, while appearing on "I’m a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here", that he does not believe in the scientific theory of evolution, and that he thinks humans have descended from "aliens". Warne has three children — Brooke, Summer and Jackson — with his ex-wife Simone Callahan. He has complete heterochromia, from which one of his eyes is blue, and the other green. Since retirement, Warne had been doing "work for the Shane Warne Foundation... [which] assists seriously ill and underprivileged children." Since launching in 2004,