Thirty years on, Shane Warne’s ball of the century echoes far beyond cricket | Andy Bull
04-06-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com

Thirty years on, Shane Warne’s ball of the century echoes far beyond cricket | Andy Bull

Sunday marks the 30th anniversary of Mike Gatting’s Ashes dismissal, a sporting moment quoted in songs, poems and HansardYou know the ball, maybe not the date, the score or the state of the game, but if you’re reading this then you surely know the ball. Its flight, how it curved and dipped, hit the pitch and twisted back past the bat, and the equal and opposite reactions that followed. The way poor Mike Gatting stared dumbfounded at the ground, as if, yoink, someone had just pinched
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