Still in disbelief by Shane Warne's death, India off-spinner Ravichandran hailed the late Australian legend for redefining bowling and bringing spin as an attacking commodity in world cricket. (More Cricket News)
Shane Warne, a spin wizard who made the world fall in love with his craft, died of natural causes at the age of 52 in Thai꧂land on Friday.
Still in disbelief by Shane Warne's death, India off-spinner Ravichandran hailed the late Australian legend for redefining bowling and bringing spin as an attacking commodity in world cricket. (More Cricket News)
Warne, a spin wizard who made the world fall in love with his craft, died of natural causes at the age of 52 in Thailand on Friday, leaving the world shell-sh🌺ocked.
"I see Warne as a flag-bearer for carrying the spin aspect of bowling on the front in the world cricketing map. The top three wicket-takers in the world are spinners in Muttiah Muralitharan, Shane Warne and Anil Kumble," Ashwin said on his Youtube channel.🌸 (from 13:26)
"He was an interesting character. So many Australian legends had so many nice things to say about him. I still can't accept the fact that life is so fꩲickle. We cannot predict what can 🌌happen."
Warne, regarded as the greatest spinner of all time, picked up 708 wickets with his leg-spin for Australia in 145 Tests. Iꦏn his 194 ODI appearances, he snared 293 scalps.
"Shane Warne was a colourful character, he redefined bowling, he has taken more thaಌn 1000 international wickets, not many can achieve this rare feat."
Warne had bowled the 'ball of the century’ deceiving Mike Gatting at Old Trafford with a delivery that landed on the leg st꧅ump a🐭nd, as the Englishman tried to defend, turned viciously to clip his off bail.
However, that isn't 💮Ashwin's favourite Warne delꩵivery.
"Shane Warne brought spin as an attacking commodity to this cricketing world. Everyone will talk about Warne's delivery to Mike Gatting, but my favourite is Warne's delivery to Andrew🍒 Strauss in 2005 Ashes," Ashwin said.
"He almost single-handedly fought for Australia in that series. He was a maestro. He was an extra-ordi🌠nary human being and he lived his life to the fullest," he added.
The s🐭easoned off-spinner, India's second-highest wicket-taker in Test cricket, also spoke about how a traumatic childhood accident, breaking both legs helped Warne master one of the most difficult crafts in the game.
"I was talking to Rahul Dravid who was extremely sad. For a spinner, your shoulder 💎and upper-half of the body has to be extremely strong because you have ൲to use many rotations to spin the ball," Ashwin said.
"Because for a spinner to master your craft, you should keep bowling in the nets. Mo𝓰re so, if you are a leg-spinner. He had strong shoulders and that was his massive advantage,” he said.
Rahul Dravid had shared the dress꧋ing room with Warne for three seasons at Rajasthan Royals.
"It seems Rahul Bhai asked him, "How do you have such strong shoulders? What do you do?" It is such an unique story. There is a sport called 'Aussi♈es Rules Football'.
"It is sport like Rugby. It seems he want𒆙ed to play the sport but was not b🦩uilt for it since people who play it are tall and well-built blokes."
It is a known incident that as a child, Warne had suffered tꦜwo broken legs when another kid jumped from a height and landed on his back.
Wi🤡th both legs swathed in plaster casts, Warne had to push himself around in a cart, developing extraordinary streng🅠th in his upper body.
"So, they used to bully him and it seems he broke both his legs while playing. He couldn't walk and was on bed rest. For 3-4 weeks he walked or rather f𝔍loated using his bare hands and those made his shoulders strong and there was no looking back.
"That's what he has told Rahul Bhai. We all face ෴obstacles in life, but look hꦆow Warne converted it as his success formula," Ashwin added.