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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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Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Tendulkar made his international debut for India in 1989 at 16 and, across a 24-year career, became the leading run-scorer in the history of both major forms of international cricket — Test matches and One Day Internationals — a dual statistical record that no other player has come close to matching across both formats simultaneously. Tendulkar finished his career with 100 international centuries, a mark still known simply as "the ton of tons," combining 51 Test centuries and 49 ODI centuries — a round-number milestone that took years of anticipation to reach and that no other batsman in the sport's history has come within 20 centuries of matching. Nicknamed "the Little Master," Tendulkar was central to India's 2011 Cricket World Cup victory, played on home soil, a title his teammates carried him off the field to celebrate as the culmination of a career that had, until then, never included a World Cup win despite two decades of individual dominance. Tendulkar retired in 2013 after playing 200 Test matches, the most of any player in cricket history, and his sustained popularity across the entire subcontinent made him one of the most commercially significant athletes in the world during his playing career, a level of national attention few cricketers anywhere have matched before or since.
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