Watch: Shane Warne's 8 best deliveries in international cricket:

Watch: Shane Warne’s 8 best deliveries in international cricket: Arguably one of the greatest ever bowlers to grace the cricket field, Shane Warne is the benchmark of all leg spinner’s aspirations. This Aussie leggie turns 46 today.

Gifted with a lovely wrist, Shane Warne produced magical stuff which was deemed impossible. Even now critics are in awe regarding some of the performances from the leggie; he was right there to deliver especially whenever the team needed him the most.

Made an unimpressive debut against India and was parked all over the ground by a Ravi Shastri, many would not have given him much of a chance to survive international cricket. But he proved them all wrong. Not only he cemented his place with some out-of-the-world performances, he destroyed any competition of a player replacing him.

In an eventful career, he has seen everything. Can be considered as the Maradona of the cricketing world. Controversies getting him banned from playing to ripping apart opposition when the team needs a miracle to win. He was the core of the juggernaut Australian team, led by Ricky Ponting.

One of the major sagas of his career was his impending rivalry against Sachin. While it can be somewhat argued that Sachin came out on top in this rivalry, he has got the number of the master more than just a few times. But his best was always reserved for the English; taking a record 195 wickets against them, with the highlight being some out of the world deliveries to dismiss Mike Gatting and Andrew Strauss. And the amazing fact is the span of 11 years between both the dismissals.

Watch: Shane Warne’s 8 best deliveries in international cricket: