Warne8217;s turn for the better

Warne is different from other leggies in that he doesn8217;t bowl middle and off-stump line. He bowls on the leg-stump, mostly beyond leg-stump and still has batsmen completely baffled.

Sunil Gavaskar recounts how when he was a stop-gap manager of the Indian team for a couple ofmatches in Sharjah in 1994, he had told the boys not to come into the dressing room if they were out to a Warne flipper.

8220;My idea was just to let the boys know they were Indians and they should not be getting out to a leg-spinner,8221; he said.

The Indians will need to revert to the methods they employed earlier to hit him against the spin and play across the line to his big leg breaks. If they don8217;t, they are sitting ducks for Warne.

8220;He8217;s a freak. It8217;s not always easy to come down the track to him since he doesn8217;t flight the ball as often and keeps the loop low. It8217;s some wonder he still manages to extract such a huge turn,8221; says Gavaskar.