The Dark Knight wrote:I've seen many videos of Warne's wickets over the past 3 days, Roblinda2 on YouTube has posted some good videos and Fox has has shown alot of footage as there's been some chat about that on here about it and it got me thinking, what's the favourite and most memorable Shane Warne wicket for everyone on here?
Mine is Warne bowling Kevin Pietersen around his legs (and hitting off stump) in England's second innings of the 2006 Ashes Test in Adelaide.
That KP wicket, after the way the first innings had gone, was Warne saying, nah I'm still the best.
My favourites are:
Robin Smith 1993 - a couple overs after the Gatting ball, nearly as good, Taylor caught it at slip, and that moment proved the 7/52 and the Gatting ball weren't one-offs.
Alec Stewart at the Gabba. A bit like Richie Richardson, set him up beautifully with a couple of balls to cut and then the flipper. Perfect example of why he always said singles, not boundaries, annoyed him.
Jacques Kallis 300th wicket. I still can't work out how he missed it.
Matthew Hoggard at Amazing Adelaide. Sitting side-on, seeing it come out higher, there was just a moment when it all seemed to pause and you knew something was going to happen.
A couple of other memories from the Masterclasses they do on English telly, and they showed these ones on Channel 9. The first over he'd bowl, rather than just hoping to get into rythym and land them like most leggies, he showed how he would bowl 3 or 4 slightly different basic legspinners to assess the pace, bounce and spin in a wicket and he'd know all that after just one over. On another he and Healy were on, two wickets where Warne beat the batsmen beautifully, but didn't mean much if Healy didn't make a couple of great stumpings.