The ball that became an `instant classic`

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.

Stunning yorker

Jasprit Bumrah to Ollie Pope, Visakhapatnam, February 2024. A laser-driven, pinpoint accurate reverse-swinging screamer of a yorker which started well outside off, surged through the air like a missile, forced the batsman to get his feet out of the way in self-protection and plucked out the middle and leg stumps.

A magical ball, delivered by a magical bowler. Stumps spreadeagled, the batsman in a daze, the bowler ecstatic, his mates beside themselves with joy. That delivery has already developed its own legacy.