Shane Warne to Mike Gatting, Old Trafford, June 1993. The champion leggie’s first delivery in Tests on English soil, to an excellent player of spin. A ripping leg-break that drifted into the right-hander, pitched outside leg, broke sharply, turned right across the face of Gatting’s bat and crashed into the off-stump. 

In that moment itself, that ball—‘the ball of the century’—fired the imagination like no other. Over time, it developed a legacy of its own.