The day the music died
Click here to watch 8 top dismissals from Warne, interspersed with commentary from the magician himself. Orgasmic!
The beauty doesn't just lie in the end result, the ball spinning prodigiously, but it starts right from the start. Shane Warne walking in to bowl is a sight in itself. The wait at the top of the walk, the theatrical look at the batsman, and the transfer of the cherry to the left hand with that beautiful flick of the right hand that only a leg break bowler can produce, all make you shift to the edge of the couch. Initially, the arms are at his side, and then the left hand discreetly transfers the ball to the right, that slow beautiful walk, the eyes gleaming in anticipation of a fooling a batsman, the two hands join again, the left over the right, underneath which, the grip on the ball is finalised and held firmly.
The left hand now withdraws away and the walk turns into a slow jog.And then that small hop, the right hand goes into a circular arc, and ends up with elbow locked in a V shape, the left hand also by this time makes a V, the right feet almost parallel to the crease; then the left hand comes out, forward and down like drawing down a curtain, while the right goes down and then comes up in a circular motion, and
the whole weight is now shifted to the left foot, and the ball is released with a rip, a final flick of the right wrist, launching the ball in its orbit.
The ball whirs in the air, swirls, swerves, dips and if it is Warne's day; it would pitch on the leg stump, the batsman unsure would turn towards it, the ball would then spin sharply, squaring him up , beating the frantic wave of the bat, and triumphantly kissing the off stump, which seems only happy to receive the kiss and would peg
back a little and give a hats off gesture – the bails come off.
What a beauty! If Abdul Qadir's run in was magical, with his hands doing through a myriad but beautiful motions, Warne's walk in is equally beautiful. Roberto Baggio's walk after scoring ‘The goal' is being constantly shown in a commercial but that was the end result of an achievement, a guilt washed away, a sad memory burnt, a
redemption song, but Shane Warne's walk is in anticipation of a triumph, of a dream looked forward to, a painting about to be sketched, a work of a true artist. Unlike Baggio's (no doubt, a wonderful moment) walk, which is a solitary walk in a lifetime, the beauty occurs each and every time, Warne goes in to bowl. Now he has chosen to walk off a cricket ground. Forever. With Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar set to ride off towards the horizon in the near future, the game will miss the magician, the wizard and technical virtuoso. Adios Amigos. I only wonder how tomorrow’s young boys and girls will fall in love with this great game.
The beauty doesn't just lie in the end result, the ball spinning prodigiously, but it starts right from the start. Shane Warne walking in to bowl is a sight in itself. The wait at the top of the walk, the theatrical look at the batsman, and the transfer of the cherry to the left hand with that beautiful flick of the right hand that only a leg break bowler can produce, all make you shift to the edge of the couch. Initially, the arms are at his side, and then the left hand discreetly transfers the ball to the right, that slow beautiful walk, the eyes gleaming in anticipation of a fooling a batsman, the two hands join again, the left over the right, underneath which, the grip on the ball is finalised and held firmly.
The left hand now withdraws away and the walk turns into a slow jog.And then that small hop, the right hand goes into a circular arc, and ends up with elbow locked in a V shape, the left hand also by this time makes a V, the right feet almost parallel to the crease; then the left hand comes out, forward and down like drawing down a curtain, while the right goes down and then comes up in a circular motion, and
the whole weight is now shifted to the left foot, and the ball is released with a rip, a final flick of the right wrist, launching the ball in its orbit.
The ball whirs in the air, swirls, swerves, dips and if it is Warne's day; it would pitch on the leg stump, the batsman unsure would turn towards it, the ball would then spin sharply, squaring him up , beating the frantic wave of the bat, and triumphantly kissing the off stump, which seems only happy to receive the kiss and would peg
back a little and give a hats off gesture – the bails come off.
What a beauty! If Abdul Qadir's run in was magical, with his hands doing through a myriad but beautiful motions, Warne's walk in is equally beautiful. Roberto Baggio's walk after scoring ‘The goal' is being constantly shown in a commercial but that was the end result of an achievement, a guilt washed away, a sad memory burnt, a
redemption song, but Shane Warne's walk is in anticipation of a triumph, of a dream looked forward to, a painting about to be sketched, a work of a true artist. Unlike Baggio's (no doubt, a wonderful moment) walk, which is a solitary walk in a lifetime, the beauty occurs each and every time, Warne goes in to bowl. Now he has chosen to walk off a cricket ground. Forever. With Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar set to ride off towards the horizon in the near future, the game will miss the magician, the wizard and technical virtuoso. Adios Amigos. I only wonder how tomorrow’s young boys and girls will fall in love with this great game.
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