{"product_id":"ball-of-the-century-9780349000480","title":"Ball of the Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Brendan Cooper\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Sphere\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Sphere\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Cricket\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e. . . the ball drifted further and further and further and then dropped, hitting the pitch well outside leg stump before turning at a brutal, impossible angle . . .\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Never, in all of cricket's history, has one delivery had such a devastating impact. The game can even be said to be split in two, either side of that moment. After Shane Warne's Ball of the Century, at Old Trafford on 4 June 1993, everything was changed. That burst of superior magic would haunt English cricket for the rest of the decade, as well as transforming the nature of the game - resurrecting the art of leg spin, and plaguing batsmen's dreams. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBall of the Century\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of cricket's most famous delivery, and the explosive power of its legacy. England would go on to lose every Ashes series that decade; by the summer of 1999, they were rated as the worst team in the world. It was only as a new century dawned that a brighter era began to surface, with the struggles of one decade spawning the redemption of the next. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this ride through nineties Britain, Ashes cricket, leg spin bowling, and the rise of a legend, \u003ci\u003eBall of the Century\u003c\/i\u003e explores how a single moment really can shape history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sphere","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47889457807511,"sku":"9780349000480","price":2207.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780349000480.webp?v=1781176560","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/ball-of-the-century-9780349000480","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}