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Shane Warne The second table in the series attempts to answer an oft-repeated question: Does Warne get a bulk of his wickets off the opposition tail?

Very clearly, that is not correct. If you take positions one to six as belonging to the established batsmen and the rest as the tail, Warne has taken 167 wickets against the former category, and 141 wickets against the tail. His victims, thus, are pretty evenly distributed across the batting order.

 

NoOppositionTest
Batsmen Dismissed at Batting Position
Wickets
   0102030405060708091011 
01India0401-020101--01---06
02Sri Lanka05-01-02-0103-04030115
03West Indies13020504050405030703040547
04New Zealand09030304050605040905050554
05England17090808140906070308100385
06South Africa12040405090606070807040464
07Pakistan06040204010305030502060237
 Total652323273729282733293220308

However, again, the figures against sub-continental sides are markedly different from those against the rest. Warne has too few wickets against India to permit of much analysis. But against Sri Lanka, a country that has always tended to discount his abilities, 11 of his 15 victims belong to the lower order. And even Pakistan, which seems more in awe of the leggie than its two neighbours, has contributed no less than 18 lower order wickets to Warne's total bag of 37.

Stats: H R Gopalakrishna

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