| PROFILE | |||||
| Full Name : | Shane Keith Warne |  |
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| Birthday : | Sep 13, 1969 | ||||
| Birth Place : | Ferntree Gully, Melbourne | ||||
| Country : | Australia | ||||
| Batting : | Right Handed Batsman | ||||
| Bowling : | Right arm leg break | ||||
| ODI Debut : | Australia v New Zea land at Wellington, 3rd ODI, 1992/93 | ||||
Warne made his first-class
cricket debut in 1990-91, taking 0/61 and 1/41 for Victoria against
Western Australia at the Junction Oval in Melbourne. With Australia
searching for a leg spin bowler for its Test team, Warne was selected
in the Australia B team which toured Zimbabwe in September 1991.
His best performance was 7/52 in a four-day match. Back home, he
took 3/14 and 4/42 for Australia A against the West Indies in December
1991, and was rushed into the team for the Third Test against India
at the Sydney Cricket Ground a week later.
He had an undistinguished debut, taking 1/150 (Ravi Shastri caught by Dean Jones for 206) off 45 overs, and recording figures of 1/228 in his first Test series. His poor return continued in the first innings against Sri Lanka at Colombo in the next year, in which he recorded 0/107. However, a spell of 3 for 11 in the second innings contributed to a remarkable Australian win and arguably saved his Test career. Despite the inauspicious start to his Test career, he has since revolutionised cricket thinking with his mastery of leg spin, which many cricket fans had regarded as a dying art. He has combined the ability to turn the ball prodigiously, even on unhelpful pitches, with unerring accuracy and a wide variation of deliveries (notably including the flipper). Shane Warne Vs. England Many
of his most spectacular performances have occurred in Ashes series
against England, whose players' inexperience against leg spin bowling
made them particularly vulnerable. However, with feats like the
famous "Gatting Ball" or "Ball of the Century"
which spun sharply and bowled a bemused Mike Gatting in the 1993
Ashes series, most of the credit is Warne's. Warne has also been
highly effective bowling in one-day cricket, something few other
leg spin bowlers have managed. He is also noted for his exuberant
(and sometimes effective) lower-order batting, once famously being
dismissed for 99 with a reckless shot when a Test century beckoned,
on what was later shown to be a no ball. He has captained Australia
on several occasions in one-day cricket matches. |
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| Warne
And Spin |
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A spin wizard in every sense of the word
this great leg spinner from Victoria, Australia has set new standards
in World cricket. At the time when spin was dying a slow death,
he showed to the World what real talent is all about and in the
bargain the whole world got to see some masterpieces from this magician.
The ball he got Mike Gatting out with has gone down in the history
as the ball of the century. After breaking Richie Benaud's record
of 355 wickets, he is aiming for bigger and better things. The only
bowler according to Kapil Dev who is capable of getting to the 500
plus wickets mark. And he has proved Kapil right. Regarded as the
best leg spinner in the World it is a treat to watch him bowl, such
is the talent of this man. |
