Mohali: PCA stadium

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1996

Arani Basu, March 6, 2022: The Times of India

Mohali: It won’t be an understatement to say that Shane Warne left an indelible mark on almost all cricket venues in which he played. The PCA stadium here in Mohali was witness to Warne’s first magic spell in a world event. 
It was the World Cup semifinal against West Indies on 14 March 1996. In a match dominated by fast bowlers on a lively pitch that offered steep bounce, Warne (4/36) single-handedly won the match for Australia in the last 10 overs as West Indies fell five runs short of Australia’s 207.

Former BCCI chief curator Daljit Singh remembers the game vividly. Mohali was still a new international venue. The PCA stadium boasted of being the fastest and bounciest pitch in India.

“In the 1996 World Cup semifinal, when Curtly Ambrose’s ball flew past Mark Waugh and the wicketkeeper had to leap to gather it, a BCCI administrator jumped from his seat and exclaimed to me, ‘What have you made, Daljit?’

“When Mark Taylor gave the ball to Warne with less than 40 runs to defend, everybody in the stadium thought it was the wrong thing to do,” Daljit told TOI.

“But what Warne did was magical. He choked the Windies batters. A good leg-spinner can always be very lethal on bouncy pitches. He had a cocked wrist position which allowed him to generate more revolutions, which help to extract disconcerting bounce. He hurried the batters. He has always been an attacking bowler. He turned the match on its head in a matter of overs,” Daljit added.

Warne ensured the well-set Richie Richardson was stranded on 49 off 83 balls as he ran through the lower-middle order. “Leg-spinners faded with the advent of ODI cricket. That night, Warne showed there is always a place for an attacking leg-spinner,” Daljit said.