Dressing Room - Shane Warne

Shane Keith Warne was born on 13th September 1969 and at the time of his retirement in January 2007 was the highest wicket taker in Tests. He made his Test debut against India in 1991-92 at Sydney and had a pretty ordinary debut taking just 1 wicket and conceding 150 runs in his 45 overs. At that time even the most gifted fortune teller would not have been able to look into his crystal ball and predict the bright future and the glittering career that Warne would have. Since the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, the dominance by the West Indies with their accent on pace bowling meant that the spin bowling cupboards in world cricket were bare and that spin bowling, particularly leg-spin bowling was in danger of getting extinct. Even though Warne made a pretty unspectacular beginning to his Test career, he rose from strength to strength and by the time of his retirement was unarguably the greatest leg-spinner of all-time. 

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