Warne caught in a web — Nurse alleges

Wright said she left the club but when she got home she found Warne had slipped his hotel key into her pocket accompanied by his mobile telephone number.

She said she sent a text message to him asking what she should do with his key. “That was the worst mistake I ever made,” she said.

Wright said Warne, who is married, began to leave sexually explicit messages on her telephone. “He was very forceful,” she said.

“He was very direct, it was as though I would just do whatever he wanted. He was the Mr. Big and assumed I would jump at the mere mention of his name. … It seemed weird and a bit desperate.”

The newspaper said it confronted Warne about the calls when his Hampshire team arrived a few days ago in Liverpool to play Lancashire.

“I don’t want to talk about this now,” the newspaper reported the 30-year-old Australian leg spinner as saying. “I’m doing my job. I’ll talk to you after the match, mate."

When confronted afterward he answered, `No, no, no’ and drove off.

Warne has often courted controversy. He admitted in 1994 he accepted $4,500 from a bookmaker to give information on weather and pitch conditions. He was fined $6,000 for the incident.