Australian cricket legend Shane Warne died Friday of a suspected heart attack. He was just 52. Warne is widely acknowledged to be one of the, if not the, best bowlers the game has ever produced. He revived the lost art of leg-spin bowling which had lost ground to hard-charging fast-bowlers in the 1970s and 1980s. Warne played in 145 Test matches and 194 ODIs for Australia between 1992 and 2007. He took 708 Test wickets and 293 one-day wickets with a 25.4 and 25.7 bowling average, respectively. He was also handy with the bat...his full stats are here. A larger-than-life character, occasionally embroiled in controversy, Warne helped Australia win the 1999 cricket World Cup. He will receive a state funeral.
Shane Warne bowled over 50,000 balls in his illustrious international cricket career, but none may have been better, or certainly as famous, as his "ball-of-century" that completely bamboozled Mike Gatting in the 1993 Ashes series against heated rivals England:
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