WELL, CAN WE IGNORE RASHID’S ‘WARNE’ DELIVERY?

PETER HAYTER

One ball was all it took but what a ball it was. Pitching on leg-stump, it spun sharply and, seemingly gathering pace off the pitch, beat India’s Virat Kohli before he had had a chance to work out how to play it, crashed into his off stump and turned the third and final One-Day International decisively in England’s favour.
It was not quite Shane Warne’s Ball of the Century, though the pursed-lipped shock on the face of the best batsman in world cricket did bring to mind the expression on Mike Gatting’s mug at Old Trafford that day in 1993, describe...

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