The announcement of his coming lasted all of the seven seconds he took to prepare and deliver his first ball in a Test in England and his first in Ashes cricket, known now as the Ball of the Century. So many batsmen were often done in the mind before he had even released the ball from his right hand. rumours Warne did not entirely extinguish. Exactly 27 years ago, on this day, an Australian leg spinner produced a piece of magic on a cricket field. Shane Warne has been one of the best spinners to have played the game at the highest level.
Mike Gatting was the best player of spin in England's team, so it was a special moment," Warne said in the video.
Shane Keith Warne had made a rather nondescript Test debut against India in January 1992. [citation needed] New Zealand’s captain and leading batsman, Martin Crowe, had praised Warne before the series, but Wisden notes that Crowe’s proclamation was widely dismissed as excusing New Zealand’s frailties rather than genuinely endorsing Warne.
Warne was part of a one in a lifetime team full of amazing talent. However, Gatting was renowned as a world-class player against spin bowling, and was fully expected to give the inexperienced Warne a tough time. Warne went on to pick up 4 wickets in each innings to help Australia win the Test and eventually the series. The intention is for the ball to hit either the pad or the bat without danger of being out. Needless to say, it also ushered in an era when spinners were back to being the magicians of the game. On his day he was unplayable and on an off day still able to take key wickets. The competitive nature of that series – after a lop-sided opener at Lord’s that the tourists won, every other fixture provided sporting drama of the highest quality – seemingly inspired Warne to reach a personal Ashes peak. The last act was to help regain the urn at home in 2006-07, Andrew Flintoff becoming Warne's 195th Ashes scalp when stumped by Adam Gilchrist in Sydney. Mike Gatting had joined Gooch in the middle. Let’s just say this delivery is going to be everything that matters. he must be one of the best bowler in the world,if you look at is stats over the years. There are patches of rough on the pitch around Laxman, who has opened his shoulder a little, ready for the ripping leggie in case one lands there. And it has simply reopened since he hung up his Baggy Green cap. It became recognised as being of considerable significance in not just the context o… The young, bright-blond bowler in 1993 went on to finish with 34 scalps during the six-match Ashes, though a strike-rate of a wicket every 77.6 balls was comfortably the highest for any of his four series on English soil. Australia would go on to win by 179 runs. Leg spinner Warne didn’t have any significant First Class experience before entering the Test arena, in 1992, when India toured Australia. England suffered more than any other nation. The reign that began with the drifting, turning, spitting leg-break that pitched in the rough outside Mike Gatting's leg stump and clipped the off bail lasted 14 years and took in 708 victims.external-link, "It's very seldom that you see the course of history altered by the trajectory of a single delivery," the award-winning Australian cricket writer Gideon Haighexternal-link told BBC Sport. Here we unravel our weekly special segment ‘Throwback Thursday’, where we take a trip down memory lane and revisit the 'Ball of the century'. Australia have been bowled out for 289 and so far they have only claimed the wicket of opening batsman Mike Atherton, who was dismissed by the mighty Merv Hughes.