espnstar.com's Rajarshi Gupta writes about the aura Shane Warne has created around himself, thanks to wickets and controversies.

Warnie has struck again. A sip of beer with his Royals well placed with Royal Challengers Bangalore on the mat at 50 for five. The mills had started working again.

Besides bamboozling batsmen with his turn and guile, even after a year of his retirement from international cricket, the blonde leg-spinner has not lost the aura that made him a legend of the folklores.

Warne led a team of newbies, studded with some international gems, to lift the first edition of the Indian Premier League. Given. He has turned out to be a sensational strategist. Given. The way Warne led, showing why is the best Australian captain to have never led the team.

But could he have done the same with an Aussie team, filled to the brim with superstars?

Clearly, he could not have. Warne's famed contempt for the establishment and his own team mates is no secret.

For one, the leggie could never be the best of friends with his former coach in the national team, John Buchanan. Neither does he see eye to eye with long term mate, Adam Gilchrist.

Last year, when Warne came on board to take charge of the Rajasthan Royals, he set to rest all speculation with a crack team. Everything he touched turned to gold.

He gave India that enigma called Yusuf Pathan and is almost on the verge of delivering Ravinder Jadeja to the doors of the hallowed dressing room.

These young men started to look up to a man, they would have only dreamt of even setting their eyes on.

Warne had his ego to fight in his playing days for Australia. His controversies kept him away from the captain's seat and first saw Steve Waugh and then Ricky Ponting snatch the spot away.

Not that it would have mattered much to Warnie. He loved bowling and turning the ball square even on a glass top.

He would never have had his way with his Aussie bunch. They were rock stars, all of them. There was no Jadeja, no young Kamran Khan, no Swapnil Asnodkar.

What he had instead was Gilly, Glen McGrath, the Waugh brothers for a while, Matthew Hayden, Justin Langer, Damien Martyn. That is quiet a list for ego to be knocked out.

Not that Warne has shed his ego yet. He still thinks he is bigger than the game. No one has ever argued that Shane Warne is the best spinner that ever played the game.

But his attitude. Remember, how he was caught smoking in the team dug-out in India during the last IPL?

That was it! And the beer sipping saga this year. This is cricket. There are some examples to be set in the gentleman's game.

Warne's former skipper Steve Waugh had once famously proclaimed that even Sachin Tendulkar is not bigger than the game.

The difference is clear, Tendulkar realises that, he has known it for the last two decades. Warne is yet to acknowledge that, even a year after his retirement.