Compiled by PA Sport Staff

Shane Warne, who yesterday announced he would not be returning to county cricket before his retirement from the first-class game later this year, arrived on the international scene with the 'Ball of the Century' which dislodged Mike Gatting's off-stump at Old Trafford in 1993.

He claimed 708 Test and 1,001 international victims to become considered arguably the greatest leg-spinner of all time and was named one of Wisden's five cricketers of the century in 2000.

Here PA Sport looks at some of the Australian's greatest deliveries.

Richie Richardson, 1993, Melbourne: Warne gave perhaps the first significant hint of his world-class potential with a flipper which deceived Richardson and shot underneath his back-foot defence. The Antiguan had a half-century to his name but had no answer to Warne, who went on to take seven for 52 in a 139-run win.

Mike Gatting, 1993, Old Trafford: The most famous delivery in cricket history. Gatting was bamboozled by Warne's first Ashes ball which drifted wide of leg-stump from a slightly dropped shoulder and looked to many like a poorly-directed googly. Instead, it turned beyond Gatting's forward push to disturb off-stump.

Basit Ali, 1996, Sydney: The Pakistani middle-order batsman was the fall guy this time as Warne demonstrated not just his skill with ball in hand but his ability to unsettle an opponent's mental state. Ali was undone by the final ball of day three - a plain leg-break which bowled him through his legs - after it had been delayed by several seconds while Warne and wicketkeeper Ian Healy held an ostentatious mid-pitch conference on how best to undermine their prey.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 1996, Sydney: Another huge leg-break, this time dropped short of a length and drawing the left-hander into an attempted cut. With Chanderpaul rocked back looking for another boundary to add to his 71 runs, the ball went at right angles to beat bat and body as it homed in on leg-stump. It ended the Guyanan's century stand with Carl Hooper to put Australia on course for a last-day victory.

Andrew Strauss, 2005, Edgbaston: Strauss had long been on the end of Warne's mind games and was bowled in the first innings of the second Test when he shaped to cut a leg-break which was too close and full for the shot. It was second time round, though, that the left-hander fell to a Warne special. Again a leg-break, delivered from a helpful round-the-wicket angle, this one turned about as much as Gatting's ball - from well outside off-stump to hit leg, with Strauss shuffling across the crease.

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