Batting icon Sunil Gavaskar feels the late Shane Warne made a ‘magical delivery’ and mastered a difficult craft during his career. But Australian Warne was not the greatest spinner of all time as his performance in India was ‘quite ordinary’.

Gavaskar said on ‘India’, “Warne mastered a craft that is very difficult… wrist spin. To take over 700 wickets in Test cricket, hundreds in One Day cricket and let’s tell you that What a good bowler he was.”

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Sunil Gavaskar: Shane Warne was not the greatest spinner, blamed his lifestyle for his death

Gavaskar said “leg-spin or wrist spin is difficult” :-

“Finger spin is very easy, you have more control over what you want to bowl. But leg-spin or wrist spin is tougher. The way he bowled for him, the way he created the magic, that’s what The reason was that he was respected in the entire cricketing world.”

But when Gavaskar was asked whether the Australian is the greatest spinner to have taken 708 Test wickets, the former India captain said that he called India spinners and former Sri Lankan bowler Muttiah Muralitharan, who took 800 Test wickets in his career. , rated them high. Compared to Warne.

Muttiah Muralitharan is definitely better than Shane Warne :-

Gavaskar said, “No, I will not say no. For me, the Indian spinner and Muttiah Muralitharan was definitely better than Shane Warne,”.

” Look at Shane Warne’s record against India. It was quite common. In India, he got five wickets only once in Nagpur, and that too because Zaheer Khan bounced wildly to give him a fifer.”

Hard to put this into words. I first met him when I was 15 at the Academy. He gave me my nickname.

We were teammates for more than a decade, riding all the highs and lows together.

Through it all he was someone you could always count on, someone who loved his family… pic.twitter.com/KIvo7s9Ogp

— Ricky Ponting AO (@RickyPonting) March 5, 2022

Gavaskar’s comments upset some of Warne’s Indian fans:-

Gavaskar’s comments upset some of Warne’s Indian fans. In particular his suggestion that Shane Warne’s lifestyle had contributed to his early death.

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Gavaskar also said “He was always looking to live life to the fullest. King size as they call it and he did it and probably because he lives that way. Maybe that’s why his Hearts couldn’t take it and he died so soon”.