FLASHBACK #51
SHANE WARNE MARKS ASHES D
WITH ‘BALL OF THE CENTURY’
DATE: 3 June 1993
OCCASION: First Test of the Ashes
SIGNIFICANCE: England are
comfortable at 80 for one when on
comes a chubby young spinner with
a blond surfer cut and white warpaint
– Shane Warne. His first ball is a
loopy drifter that pitches outside Mike
Gatting’s leg stump and turns viciously.
The Aussies celebrate but Gatting stays
put. Then he turns to find the ball has
clipped his off stump…
SCORE: Australia 289 and 432/5d;
England 210 and 332. Australia won
by 179 runs
TOP SCORERS/BOWLERS: First
innings: Australia: Taylor 124 (Such
6-67); England: Gooch 65, (Warne
4-51). Second innings: Australia:
Healy 102 not out; England: Gooch 133
(Warne 4- 86)
WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? The Aussies
went on to win the series 4-1 while
Warne (the Man of the Match) became
the greatest leg-spinner of all time
LINE-UPS: AUSTRALIA: Taylor, Slater,
Boon, M Waugh, Border, S Waugh,
Healy, Julian, Hughes, Warne,
McDermott. ENGLAND: Gooch,
Atherton, Gatting, Smith, Hick, Stewart,
Lewis, DeFreitas, Caddick, Such, Tufnell
GROUND: Old Trafford
ATTENDANCE: 55,788 over four days
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