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Shane Warne
Shane Warne made his Test debut for Australia in 1992 and went on to redefine what leg-spin bowling could do at the highest level, finishing his career with 708 Test wickets, at the time the most of any bowler in Test history and still the most by any specialist spin bowler not named Muttiah Muralitharan. His first ball in Ashes cricket, delivered to England's Mike Gatting in 1993, drifted sharply in the air before spinning viciously past Gatting's bat to clip the off stump — a delivery still simply known as "the Ball of the Century," and one that announced Warne's arrival on the international stage in a single moment. Warne was central to Australia's dominant cricket era through the 1990s and 2000s, helping the team win the 1999 Cricket World Cup and multiple Ashes series against England, and his rivalry with Muralitharan over who was the greater spin bowler became one of the sport's defining debates for the better part of two decades. Warne's career also included a one-year doping ban in 2003 after testing positive for a banned diuretic, a controversy he attributed to a weight-loss medication given to him by his mother — a blemish on an otherwise legendary career that didn't stop him from returning to finish among the most statistically dominant bowlers the sport has ever seen.
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Muttiah Muralitharan
Muttiah Muralitharan played for Sri Lanka from 1992 to 2010 and finished his career with 800 Test wickets, the most of any bowler in the history of the format by a wide margin — the next closest bowler finished more than 100 wickets behind him, a gap that's unusual for a career record this significant. His unusual bowling action, involving a naturally bent arm from a childhood injury, drew repeated scrutiny and biomechanical testing throughout his career, including formal challenges to his action's legality in 1995 and 2004 — testing that ultimately confirmed his action fell within legal limits, but the controversy shadowed even his most dominant seasons. Muralitharan also holds the record for most wickets in One Day International cricket, meaning he finished his career as the all-time leading wicket-taker in both major forms of the international game simultaneously, a dual record matched on the batting side only by Sachin Tendulkar. Muralitharan was central to a golden era of Sri Lankan cricket, including the country's 1996 Cricket World Cup title, and his wicket tally, more than a decade after his retirement, still sits as the standard other spin bowlers are measured against, with no active bowler realistically positioned to threaten it.
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