On the Previous Trafford floor the place Shane Warne bowled the ‘Ball of the Century’ in 1993, Sri Lanka spinner Prabath Jayasuriya made a bid for the modern-day equal by dismissing England’s Harry Brook in gorgeous model on Thursday.
Brook had been in wonderful contact whereas making an unbeaten fifty to take England to 176 for 4 at Tea on the second day of the primary Take a look at, a first-innings deficit of simply 60 runs.
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However the 25-year-old rising star of English cricket had added simply three runs to his interval 53 when he was turned inside out by a ball from left-armer Jayasuriya that dipped in on the road of center and leg stumps earlier than spinning sharply and bouncing to clip the highest of off stump.
Brook’s exit left England 187 for 5, nonetheless 49 runs adrift of Sri Lanka’s 236 within the first of this three-Take a look at sequence.
Australia leg-spin nice Warne, who died aged 52 two years in the past, marked his first ball in Ashes cricket with a celebrated supply at Previous Trafford that pitched outdoors leg-stump after which spun viciously throughout Mike Gatting to clip the off-bail.
So bemused was Gatting by his dismissal that the late Richie Benaud, himself a former Australia leg-spinner, remarked throughout his tv commentary, “Gatting has completely no thought what has occurred to him — and he nonetheless doesn’t know.”