Jackson Warne is charting his own course, even as parts of it reflect the path taken by his late father, Shane Warne.
The 27-year-old has begun a new job in the UK as a roving reporter for Sky Sports, working at The Hundred, the professional cricket competition played across July and August each year.
In the role, Jackson has been interviewing some of the sport’s biggest names, and he has already impressed players and co-workers with an easygoing but knowledgeable style that blends cricket talk with conversations about life away from the game.
His move into the job marks a different way of being involved in cricket. Although he played for a brief period while at school, Jackson stopped as a teenager rather than continue under the weight of expectations attached to his father’s name.
“I never pushed Jackson into cricket,” Shane once told the Sun Herald.
“He played it for a year, took a hat-trick – took four wickets in five balls – bowling a little bit of leg-spin or with the seam, smashed a few with the bat. Still, the game didn’t really grab him.”
While playing never truly clicked for him, being in front of the camera appears to suit him naturally. The Sky Sports role feels like a fitting next step, linking Shane Warne’s cricket legacy with Jackson’s growing work in media.
He is also getting ready to relaunch his podcast, Warne’s Way, in September. Since its first episode debuted in August 2025, Jackson has spoken to a wide mix of sports stars, entrepreneurs, television personalities and other public figures connected to his father’s life, including singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran.
Jackson was especially close to Shane, who died in 2022 when Jackson was 22. That bond also runs through the podcast, where guests speak candidly about grief, mental struggles and how they have made it through hard periods in their lives. Many also share memories of Jackson’s father.
During his appearance, Sheeran said his final memory with Shane was attending a Coldplay concert together. He said he does not usually go to concerts, but the outing had been Shane’s idea.
“Your dad came around before to my house, and we had sort of like pre-drinks and hung. And then we walked there because it was just around the corner from my gaff,” Sheeran recalled.
Sheeran and Shane had become close friends after first meeting by chance in 2014, when they were staying in neighbouring hotel rooms before the Logies.
“I stood next to your dad for the entire gig. I usually would watch from like side-of-stage, but I was like in the crowd next to your dad, arm around him, singing loud, loud, loud.
“And it was like Covid lockdown was sort of ending, and it was the first time, you know, people had been at gigs. It was also seeing Coldplay in like a tiny venue. But I like really cherish that like that was my last proper memory with him was that. You know, it’s a really lovely one.”
