8 Greatest leg spinners of all time

2. Shane Warne, Australia:

What can I say about this man?! Everyone of us has perhaps seen the Ball of the Century that Warne delivered to Mike Gatting and left him baffled like he’d seen a ghost. That expression on Gatting’s face spoke tonnes about what a bowler Shane Warne was. And yet, that is just the tip of the iceberg. Warne, the Australian leg-spinner who mastered every batsman save Sachin Tendulkar, the only specialist bowler to make his way among the five Wisden Cricketers of the Century, would be one of the fewest players who cannot be described enough.

In his debut match, he got one wicket for 150 runs. In his last match, he again managed to bag one wicket for 23 runs. But in-between these two incidents, everything he did was sheer magic. Taking the responsibility of a specialist bowler very seriously, Shane Warne spun the ball so well, it spun the world of cricket. The figures speak for him. 708 wickets from 145 Test matches at an average of 25.41 while playing against greats like Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara tells so much about what a king of spin he is!