Condoling Shane Warne's demise, Ricky Ponting tweeted, "Hard to put this into words. I first met him when I was 15 at...Academy. He gave me my nickname." He added, "We were teammates for [over] a decade...riding all the highs and lows together." Ponting's liking for dog races and betting on them had prompted Warne to give him the nickname 'Punter'.