Australia's all-time greatest Test XI

#8 Shane Warne

Shane Warne

Warne remains the greatest spinner the game has ever seen and also the greatest match-winner of all time. He played in 145 test matches for Australia and took 708 wickets with 37 5-wicket hauls. He ruled over the English, the Kiwis, and the South Africans alike and was the talismanic player in the great Australian team of the 1990s and 2000s. Warne also took a career-best 8/71 including a hat-trick against England.

Warne was a great turner of the ball, had tremendous control over line and length and could bowl great flipper and googlies. His last great performance was the in the Ashes series of 2005 when he took 40 wickets in 5 tests.

Warne’s career bowling average was 25.41 and he was also very difficult to score off because of his control over line and length. Wisden rightly selected him as one of the five greatest cricketers of the 20th century.