Australian bowler Shane Warne (C) and keeper Ian Healy celebrate after Mike Gatting was clean bowled by Warne with his first ball on the second day of the first Test,June 4,1993.Credit:Reuters
"And I never did it again. It just shows you it really was a fluke,and it was meant to be."
Warne said he had been largely kept under wraps in the lead-up matches to the Test series,implored by captain Allan Border not to give any tricks away.
"I remember the Worcestershire game leading up to the first Test match,Allan Border told me'just bowl leg breaks to Graeme Hick and a few of the guys in their side,because they could be big players in the Ashes. We don't want them to see too much of you',"he said.
As for the ball to Gatting itself,which drifted and pitched outside leg stump and then careered across the English batsman into his off bail,Warne recalls: