Cricket legend Shane Warne joked he tried smoking 100 cigarettes a day to cure Covid

CRICKET legend Shane Warne joked he tried smoking 100 cigarettes a day to cure Covid.

The Aussie, 51, tested positive over the summer, forcing him to isolate and miss coaching The Hundred team London Spirit.

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Australian cricket ace Shane Warne joked he tried to smoke 100 cigarettes a day to cure Covid[/caption]

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The cricket legend, 51, tested positive this summer and said: ‘It didn’t really work and I ended up on a ventilator, so it wasn’t ideal’[/caption]

Double-jabbed Warne, a Sky TV cricket pundit who took 708 Test wickets, said: “I’m unfortunately not playing enough golf because I’ve got Covid.

“Don’t take this as any sort of gospel, and this is actually a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I thought if I smoked 100 cigarettes a day I could kill Covid.

“It didn’t really work and I ended up on a ventilator, so it wasn’t ideal.

“I had to have the ten days’ isolation — but I’m up and about now.”

The retired spin bowler’s claims follow numerous bizarre attempts to avoid the virus, including taking animal de-wormers or drinking bleach.

Artist David Hockney, 84, said last year puffing tobacco might protect people from the bug, a theory dismissed by experts.

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