Magician Warne prepares for final Ashes curtain call
5th Sep 2005, 13:16 GMT
LONDON: One match to go and the scoreline could not be more intriguing: England 2, Shane Warne 1. That, at least, is how it feels. Australia's leg spinner could yet end up on the losing side even though the 2005 Ashes have revolved more around him than any other player. His performances, like so many of his deliveries, have defied belief. Ask England's left-handed opener Andrew Strauss, who shouldered arms to Warne's 'Ball of the New Century' at Edgbaston and saw it dart impossibly across his front pad and hit leg stump.