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That hard-spun leg-break that left Gatting staring at his stumps in disbelief went down in cricket folklore as the 'ball of the century'.

He concludes the successful over with a hard-spun delivery that goes beyond Conway’s outside edge.

But what really sticks out is its style, a callback to the hard-spun postbop with which Mr. Blanchard first made his name 30 years ago.

Warne's Ball, a hard-spun leg-break to dismiss Mike Gatting on the third day of the Old Trafford Test, is still jarringly fresh even as it approaches its 20th birthday this Ashes summer.

As Gatting moves, a slight press towards leg-side, he can hear the fizz of the delivery, something by no means unique to Warne but which was particularly pronounced in these early hard-spun years before his first shoulder operation.