’I’M A VERY WIDE PERSON BUT THE BALL STILL TURNED PAST ME’

Nobody did it better: Warne went on to take 708 Test wickets in a 15-year international career

Twenty five years on, Shane Warne’s ‘Ball of the Century’ is still revered by all in the game, reports Derek Pringle
It was dubbed the ‘Ball of the Century’ mostly because it announced one of the greatest talents cricket has ever seen. But what do some of the England players present at the time recall, some 25 years later, of the moment Shane Warne’s wonder ball bowled Mike Gatting at Old Trafford in 1993.
We start with Gatting, recalled to the England sid...

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