Shane
Warne’s untimely death at the age of 52 forced the cricketing world to recollect
the Australian star’s life. Warne was known for creating magic on the field.
His hallucinatory effect on batsmen would often result in wickets. Warne never
used to hide his trickery and skills, unlike other spinners. He was
transparent in his approach to bowling and often would reveal what he would do
in the next delivery. Despite that batters could not tackle him.

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Warne
was so good with his skills that his bowling was like a live form of art.

Warne
was never known for sledging but he often used to get under the skin of batters
to get better of them. One such incident happened with former India captain
Sourav Ganguly during the 1999 Test match between Australia and India in
Adelaide. But his record against India had never been outstanding. Indian
players were outstanding against him. But on that occasion, Warne got the better of both.

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“To
give you a classic example. Australia were playing India at the Adelaide Oval,
and Shane had come round the wicket bowling to Ganguly. Now, Tendulkar was at
the non-striker’s end. So Shane bowled three or four balls wide into the
footmarks – some of them didn’t hit the footmarks so they didn’t come back as
much, and Ganguly was just kicking them away,” Australia great Ian
Chappell said in the documentary ‘Shane’.

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“And
after three or four of these, Shane said ‘Hey mate, these 40,000 people here
haven’t come here to see you block and kicking the ball, they have come to
watch this bloke Sachin play shots.’ And about an over later, Ganguly ran down
the track trying to hit him down the ground and he was out stumped.”

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The
Adelaide Test was the first match of the three-match Test series between
Australia and India. India lost the series 0-3. Tendulkar and Ganguly had both
scored half-centuries in India’s first innings before falling to Warne.
Tendulkar was out bat and pad to a sharp catch taken at the forward short leg
by Justin Langer, while Ganguly got foxed by a top spinner as the ball stayed
low after landing on the footmarks.