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Shane Warne's first Ashes ball shocked England
In 1993 he bowled Mike Gatting with a leg break that turned hugely At Old Trafford in June 1993, Warne pitched the ball outside Gatting's leg stump and it spun past the bat to hit off stump. The delivery became known as the ball of the century and made leg spin fashionable again. Warne retired with 708 Test wickets, second only to Muttiah Muralitharan at the time. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Shane Warne's first Ashes ball shocked England: the short answers
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- In 1993 he bowled Mike Gatting with a leg break that turned hugely. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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