THE LEGENDARY GATTING BALL

It was Shane Warne’s first Test ball in England and the bewildered expression of England batsman Mike Gatting said it all and summed up the ensuing mayhem that rocked the cricket world.

As the great cricket journalist Gideon Haigh wrote, there had never before been a “ball of the century” category, but it was instantly obvious that

Warne had bowled it.

The mesmerising vision of him ripping the ball from outside legstump to take the top of

Gatting’s off-stump never loses its impact and sums up the pure wizardry of the game’s greatest spinner.

Warne took 34 wickets that Ashes series.