HAMPSHIRE captain Shane Warne plans to quit Australia and move to England when he retires from playing.

Warne's wife Simone, has admitted the couple have already decided to emigrate.

Before then, she will take their three children, Brooke, 8, Jackson, 5, and Summer, 3, to the Lord's Test in June to join the world Test record wicket-taker for the start of the Ashes series.

"Shane will go to England in April because he's going to play for Hampshire," Simone said. "Last year the kids were out of school for four or five months because we did the county season.

"Shane will do it this year, but I'll only go for six weeks during school holidays.

"I think about moving all the time. London would be great when Shane's finished. It's nice, just everything. In winter you'd go to Spain. It's only two hours away."

Warne proposed to Simone on his first Ashes tour of England in 1993.

The 35-year-old, pictured above, is back in Melbourne for a month. Giving up one-day international cricket has enabled him to achieve his twin aims of spending more time at home whilst prolonging his career.

He was in fine form with both bat and ball overnight in Victoria's four-day Pura Cup match against South Australia. Warne took 3-50 off 30 overs and smashed 75 off 110 balls in Victoria's first innings, which included two sixes and four boundaries, and left him just 25 runs short of a maiden first-class century. Warne's highest score remains 99 for Australia against New Zealand in 2001.

Meanwhile, plans are gathering pace in Australia to elevate Twenty20 cricket into potentially the most popular form of the game.

A presentation will be made by Cricket Australia's broadcast partner Channel Nine tomorrow to replace the limited overs VB Tri-nations series with a round-robin Twenty20 tournament.

The team that scored the most runs would win the new competition, after which the three captains, Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist and ex-Hampshire batsman Michael Clarke, would select an Australian Twenty20 team to take on the rest of the world.