In the summer of ‘93, everyone at my school became a leg-spinner. We’d never seen leg-spin before Shane Warne arrived. Not that we could remember.
No one could do it – ball after ball just looping onto the top of the low hanging cricket net – batsmen waddling half way down the green matting, jumping and trying to hit the ball back to the bowler, hopefully with enough power to do it in one go. We were hopeless, but we were inspired by what we saw on TV.
Written by Max Rushden
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