I am interested in a consultancy job in IPL: Warne

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Mumbai, May 20 : Australian spin legend Shane Warne, who played his final competitive game today, made it clear he won''t be returning as a full-time coach for the Rajasthan Royals or any other team next season but said he was interested in a consultancy role.
"This is my last game, never say never but at this stage of my life I don''t see myself playing a game again. I am certainly not coming back as full time coach," Warne said after bringing down curtains on his two-decade long career with a 10-wicket win over Mumbai.
"I won''t be 100 per cent in the entire tournament. Definitely no point in being here for seven weeks if you are not playing. I may come in as consultant may be ten days prior or some time in between. If they are happy I will be here for a week or so. If not I am done with the tournament will watch it on the telly," he added.
Warne said his team Rajasthan Royals was the best in the IPL competition when everything falls in place.
"We showed that when we do fire we are the best team in the competition. Our batsmen fired at the top," said the 41-year-old Australian legend after the Royals finished their IPL engagements on a high though they couldn''t qualify for the play-offs.
Warne said that the blistering knock of 89 by Shane Watson that flattened Mumbai who had a modest score of 133 to defend indicated his Australian compatriot was among the very best in the world.
"If Watson is not the best batsman in the world currently, I don''t know who is? He''s fantastic, you could argue if he is not he is among the top two batsmen in the world. He has already apologised to me for not doing it in the earlier games. He came away with his confidence high after scoring 180 in Bangladesh," he said.
Warne also rued that prior to today''s game, the Royals played poorly at home and lost their qualifying hopes.
"We won six games, had a washout and did not play well in the last three or four games. Disappointed with the way we have played the last three or four games. But the way we played the last game we have showed we can turn it on. One or two games here or there, that would have fetched us 17 points," he said.
"Unfortunately our batsmen did not fire through the tournament. If (Shane) Watson had one more innings like that, Ross Taylor had one or two innings like that, we would have been first or second."