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Australia v England 1993 - (Ashes series most famous today for a single ball that changed cricket history) autographed Chad Valley Park junior size bat (725mm) signed in ink,
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Including: Shane Warne, Mike Gatting, Allan Border, David Boon, Mark Waugh, Ian Healy, Merv Hughes, Michael Slater, Mike Atherton, Graeme Hick, Alec Stewart, Robin Smith. Australia, led by Allan Border, won the six-Test Ashes series 4-1. This was a dominant Australian summer, coinciding with the arrival of a 23-year-old leg-spinner who'd go on to become one of the greatest bowlers the game has ever seen. The ‘Ball of the Century’ — First Test, Old Trafford, 4 June 1993. This single delivery is now one of the most famous moments in cricket history. With his very first ball against England, in his first Ashes Test, Shane Warne produced a delivery that bowled Mike Gatting. Warne, aged 23 and making his Ashes debut, delivered a leg-break that drifted wide outside Gatting's leg stump before pitching and spinning sharply across the batsman to clip the off bail, leaving Gatting bowled and stunned Warne arrived in England with just 11 Tests and 31 wickets to his name — largely unknown outside Australia — and this ball announced his arrival in seven seconds flat. His path to the squad had been unexpected too: he'd shown poor domestic form the previous Sheffield Shield season and had a lacklustre county stint in England, including being hit for boundaries by Graeme Hick while conceding 122 runs for just 1 wicket against Worcestershire. Warne went on to claim the Player of the Match award for an eight-wicket match haul in this Test. Australia won this opening Test by 179 runs. The delivery is now known as the 'Ball of the Century' or 'The Gatting Ball'— Warne's bowling gave modern cricket audiences, who'd grown used to pace-dominated cricket, an eye-opening insight into the subtleties and power of leg-spin, sparking a worldwide resurgence of interest in wrist-spin bowling. Gideon Haigh, the award-winning Australian cricket writer, later reflected: ‘It's very seldom that you see the course of history altered by the trajectory of a single delivery — that certainly happened with that ball.’.
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