The clip of Pakistan leg spinner Yasir Shah dismissing Sri Lankan batter Kusal Mendis with a stunning leg-spin in the first Test in Galle has gone viral on the internet reminding everyone the famous ‘Ball of the century’ bowled by Shane Warne, the greatest leg spinner of all time, to English batter Mike Gatting on 4 June 1993.
Beauty from Yasir Shah like Shane Warne’s Ball to Gatting … pic.twitter.com/EKNgpZqZl6
— Taimoor Zaman (@taimoorze) July 18, 2022
The viral video showed Yasir Shah pitching the cherry outside the leg stump. It spins and takes out the right-handed batter’s off stump.
The viral video of the moment got thousands of likes on Twitter. They expressed their delight with their comments.