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Warne took 11 wickets at 23.27 against the touring New Zealanders to start the 2004–05 home summer as Australia won the two-Test series 2–0. [150] Warne led the wicket-taking of both sides, ahead of Daniel Vettori. [151] Pakistan then toured, and Warne took 14 wickets at 28.71 as Australia completed a 3–0 sweep. [152] [153]
The Ball of the Century, also referred to as the Gatting Ball [1] or simply That Ball, [2] is a cricket delivery bowled by Australian spin bowler Shane Warne to English batter Mike Gatting on 4 June 1993, the second day of the first Test of the 1993 Ashes series, at Old Trafford in Manchester. [3]
Two balls later, Shane Warne took his 700th Test wicket by clean bowling Strauss, who had just reached 50. A view of the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Day 2. England subsequently collapsed and finished all out for 159 with Warne taking a further four wickets. England had lost their final eight wickets for a mere 58 runs.
Shane Warne took 6 wickets for 125 runs, overtaking Muttiah Muralitharan as the leading wicket-taker in Test cricket with 537 wickets (though Muralitharan would overtake Warne in December 2007, almost a year after Warne's retirement in January of the same year).
The Warne–Muralidaran Trophy is awarded to the winner of the Australia–Sri Lanka Test cricket series from 2007–08 season onwards. The trophy is named after the two leading wicket takers in Test cricket, Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan (who prefers to romanise his name as "Muralidaran" [2]) and Australia's Shane Warne. [3]
He was well supported by Lyon, whose three-wicket haul saw him turn the ball square on a deteriorating surface. ... He became only the third Australian to achieve the feat, joining Shane Warne ...
Shane Warne was the first to take both 600 and 700 Test wickets, in 2005 and 2006 respectively. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Warne's haul of 96 wickets in 2005 is the highest total in a calendar year, ahead of the 90 wickets taken the following year by Muralidaran, although he played fewer innings.
Warne has been most successful against England, taking 11 five-wicket hauls against them, the first in 1993 and the last in 2006, [12] and was most prolific at the SCG, where 5 of his 38 five-wicket hauls were taken. [12] Warne retired from international cricket in January 2007, having taken 708 Test and 293 ODI wickets in his career. [13]