On a Saturday afternoon at Old Trafford in 1993, a young Shane Warne bowled his first ball in Ashes cricket, a ball later known as the ‘Ball of the Century’. As Australia’s lone spinner, he came off Mike Gatting’s strike with a score of 80/1.
The blond-haired magician, stopped at the top of his mark as usual, a few steps later, a hard-spun leg-break outside the leg-stump, before turning sharply, seemingly harmless, out of the gate. Towards. Hitting the edge and hitting the top of the off stump. Gatting, a fine player of spin, was stunned, taking a few moments for him to realize what had happened.