The first thing isI do when I wake up is to switch on my Desk top and log on to Cricinfo.com
And I felt utterly dejected to see the headlines "A wonderful career winds down" so much so that my eyes became wet. Shane Keith Warne retired from international cricket and if that was not enough ... came a thunder
thunderbolt "McGrath to quit all forms of cricket" .These two have been for quite sometime the backbone of the Australian attack .Shane Warne epitomised excellence in the difficult art of legspin,with a guile that was impossible to match ...... I can still recollect the delivery which he bowled to Mike Gatting which spun from Outside the legstump and hit the top of the off stimp ...termed as the ball of the century ... exactly the shade of it was again seen though,not the exact replica when he bowled Gibbs in the World cup semis and started the dramatic collapse of the proteas innings ..
Its only a tribute to the great man to be nominated as one of the five cricketers of the century..What actually seperates" Hollywood" and puts him in a special category is the ability to come back stronger when he is in dumps and the self belief that he can turn the match on its head singlehandedly ..Inarguably the greatest legspinner to walk on a cricket field... Not only he was a great bowler but he would hav made a great caption ,had the sex scandal and controversies not rocked him ...
Vastly underrated as a bat , he was instrumental in getting quick runs and even hanging in there ,as the situation demanded .Its only an irony that his highest score in test was 99, eluding him that 100 which he would hav loved to have in his record .
Now ,we will never see the blonde waddling over the wicket and mersmersing the batsman across the world .Not to forget the regular feature in the slips cordon waiting for the nick to come to him .With Shane keith Warne calling it a day ,a glittering cricket career is over... and it is only apt to say that a purple patch which lasts for year or two , or in some cases
a more time .... has lasted for full fifteen years ...
My picks (Shane Warne's Best )
Dismissal of Mike Gatting 1993
Dismissal of Herschelle Gibbs 1999
Dismissal ofGary Kirsten 1999
One only hopes he is seen as a cricket commentator soon ....
Well done SHINEEEE Warneeeyyyyyyy[:)]
And I felt utterly dejected to see the headlines "A wonderful career winds down" so much so that my eyes became wet. Shane Keith Warne retired from international cricket and if that was not enough ... came a thunder
thunderbolt "McGrath to quit all forms of cricket" .These two have been for quite sometime the backbone of the Australian attack .Shane Warne epitomised excellence in the difficult art of legspin,with a guile that was impossible to match ...... I can still recollect the delivery which he bowled to Mike Gatting which spun from Outside the legstump and hit the top of the off stimp ...termed as the ball of the century ... exactly the shade of it was again seen though,not the exact replica when he bowled Gibbs in the World cup semis and started the dramatic collapse of the proteas innings ..
Its only a tribute to the great man to be nominated as one of the five cricketers of the century..What actually seperates" Hollywood" and puts him in a special category is the ability to come back stronger when he is in dumps and the self belief that he can turn the match on its head singlehandedly ..Inarguably the greatest legspinner to walk on a cricket field... Not only he was a great bowler but he would hav made a great caption ,had the sex scandal and controversies not rocked him ...
Vastly underrated as a bat , he was instrumental in getting quick runs and even hanging in there ,as the situation demanded .Its only an irony that his highest score in test was 99, eluding him that 100 which he would hav loved to have in his record .
Now ,we will never see the blonde waddling over the wicket and mersmersing the batsman across the world .Not to forget the regular feature in the slips cordon waiting for the nick to come to him .With Shane keith Warne calling it a day ,a glittering cricket career is over... and it is only apt to say that a purple patch which lasts for year or two , or in some cases
a more time .... has lasted for full fifteen years ...
My picks (Shane Warne's Best )
Dismissal of Mike Gatting 1993
Dismissal of Herschelle Gibbs 1999
Dismissal ofGary Kirsten 1999
One only hopes he is seen as a cricket commentator soon ....
Well done SHINEEEE Warneeeyyyyyyy[:)]
