![]() ![]() Here was the mother of all highlights, ahead of a boom in the concept expedited by a format - Twenty20 - geared to their mass manufacture. But cricket had never so isolated, analysed, celebrated or fetishised a single moment. We were seven years from the new millennium before it was proposed that a single delivery could stand out from everything before it.īaseball had its Shot Heard Round the World, football its Hand of God. ![]() One of the most remarkable features of the Ball of the Century is that nobody had imagined such a notion until it happened. Thirty years on, Warne is gone, but his signature feat and its impact abide. Come on, go mate, pull the trigger, let’s rip this.’ He later transcribed his interior monologue: ‘You gotta go. ![]() So much for that: Warne had decided he was the contest, and would not wait. He had, he explained, had a long conversation with Warne about how to approach his initial overs against England. ‘You f****** little ****!’ The club member couldn’t believe what he was hearing. The reaction at the MCG? ‘You ****!’ said Jenner. Shane Warne always shrugged off the ordinary in the quest for the extraordinary ![]()
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