Abdul Qadir on leg-spin, cricket and Warne

[Orchid]

Yep, that's the one. Even though Warne did get a handful of wickets, he didn't get Malik out even once, plus Malik did score heavily in at least 2 occassions. I also remember, much later, when Malik was already embroiled in the match fixing saga, he was selected to play for Pakistan in Australia, just to neutralise Warne.

[Rachael]

The big innings was 237 runs off 328 balls when Pakistan were following on in the second Test. A measure of the pitch is given by the fact that Mushtaq Ahmed returned figures of 36-2-145-1 as Australia made 521/9 declared. Warne was, however, ineffective rather than expensive:

Saleem Malik
1st innings                            b McDermott           33  83  47  6 0
2nd innings         c Healy            b Fleming            237 443 328 34 0

Warne                             O      M      R      W
1st innings                       21.4    8     58      1
2nd innings                       25      6     56      0

So ineffective he completed fewer overs than McDermott and Fleming in each innings!

The 3rd Test might be the one that sticks in your mind though:

Saleem Malik
1st innings         c Bevan            b May                 75 186 137 10 0
2nd innings                            b Bevan              143 313 242 19 0

Warne                             O      M      R      W
1st innings                       41.5   12    136      6 (1nb)
2nd innings                       30      2    104      3 (2nb)

Warne went at a far greater rate than May... but still ended up shouldering a far greater workload.. and got the wickets.

ps. Warne and Malik were named men of the series.