Where is Warne's legacy?
In the Australian , Malcolm Conn looks at Shane Warne's legacy - or lack of - among young legspinners.
Brydon Coverdale
25-Feb-2013
In the Australian, Malcolm Conn looks at Shane Warne's legacy - or lack of - among young legspinners.
Impressionable 10-year-olds in 1993 who saw the bleached blond leg-spinner bamboozle and bowl Mike Gatting with his first ball in a Test on English soil would now be 25. But there has been no procession of 25-year-olds charging to fill the breach. The rookie leg-spinner who landed in India today as part of Australia's 15-man touring squad, Bryce McGain, is just three years younger than Warne at 36.
So bare is the cupboard that McGain and the man he is set to replace in the Test side, Stuart MacGill, 37, are the only leggies who claimed more than nine wickets in the Sheffield Shield last season and just five managed to take a wicket at all.
Brydon Coverdale is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets here