Cricket: Warne hit by new sex scandal claim

Shane Warne

LONDON - An English woman has accused Australian test star Shane Warne of badgering her for sex after a night out in London in April.

Laura Sayers, 25, told London's tabloid Sunday Mirror that she did not know who Warne - a married father of three - was when she met him and was disappointed in his brief performance in bed.

It is the latest sex scandal to surround Warne after his text message scandal with British nurse Donna Wright in 2000 and later accusations he had an affair with stripper Angela Gallagher.

Sayers said she met Warne through one of her friends, who was dating Warne's Hampshire team-mate Kevin Pietersen, and the four went out to a nightclub and then Pietersen's flat.

"The first thing [Warne] said was 'How about a foursome?'," Sayers said, adding that she was offended by the comment and told him off.

The group returned to Pietersen's flat, where Sayers said the cricketer again asked her to have sex.

"I told him I didn't want to, but he was very persistent," Sayers said.

She said that at one point Warne went into a bedroom and called out for her to join him.

"I walked into the bedroom and told him I wasn't interested in having sex with him.

"He took off all his clothes and I asked him if he had a condom - I guessed he didn't so I thought that would be the end of it."

But she said Warne left the room and returned with a condom at which point " ... I just gave in".

Sayers said she had wanted to keep their encounter private.

"It was supposed to be a private thing, but Shane told some of his cricketing friends and suddenly I had all these people calling me about it," she said.

"They wanted to know who I'd told and where I live - they told me if his wife found out it would ruin his life."

The newspaper said Warne's wife Simone and their three children joined Warne in Southampton last week.

Warne's brother and manager Jason Warne said he was trying to contact the spinner about the allegations and would not comment until they had spoken.

He was also seeking a full copy of the article.

- AAP