Sachin Tendulkar may have described him as god's gift to cricket but Shane Warne was more concerned with some earthly matters while making a plea to media to respect his privacy.

The mercurial highest wicket-taker in the world is worried that the hounding media packs would interfere in his efforts to patch-up with estranged wife Simon.

Shane Warne, who returned to Australia to play in the ICC Super Series and attend to his personal matters, is fighting desperately to clear his name from the latest series of sex allegations.

British media has recently published a new series of sex scandal allegations involving the blonde cricket icon from Victoria.

Battle hardened Warne has dismissed the latest allegations as lies and accused Australian media of being even worse than their British counterparts. He made a plea for privacy in a media conference at Melbourne's Tullamarine airport on his arrival Wednesday.

Shane Warne, who was the leading wicket taker in the recently concluded Ashes Series, has admitted of making efforts to reconcile with wife Simone.

"We're still friends," he told reporters in Melbourne. "We still speak all the time so we just have to work out what we both want and which road we go down".

"Hopefully you guys will respect that and allow us to take the kids to the park without having 10 or 15 of you following us and camping outside our house," Warne further said.

"But I doubt it. I doubt whether you guys will. You'll all be looking for that extra snap, that extra sensational story," the Australian bowler added.