RCB coaches open up on the legendary Shane Warne's legacy

Shane Warne has always been a driving force in the world of cricket with his mesmerizing turners that would leave the batters shocked at the sheer magnitude of the brilliance that the emperor of leg-spin would weave.

He was an important part of the all-conquering Australian outfit that would send his opponents scrambling desperately for shelter in the midst of raining brilliance that he and his comrades would forge.

The RCB camp would come together in the latest episode of the RCB Bold Diaries to pay their tribute to the magician who would make the impossible happen and leave the world in utter awe of the domination that he would go on to weave across the span of his glittering career.

The coaching minds of the Challengers came together to emote themselves about the turning icon who would leave empires destabilized with his mad twist and turns. Head coach, Sanjay Bangar said, “Shane Warne was certainly a champion cricketer. I saw a lot of his videos where he would talk about leg-spin bowling. Purely from a great player understanding his craft, having the flair to pass on that wisdom that he had, to the next generation, this is a quality that very few players have.”

He further added, “I am pretty sure that all the wrist spinners of the world, whoever would have interacted with him, whoever, in a way tried to mimic him, acquire his skillsets, was deeply impacted by his presence. I am pretty sure that Shane Warne will continue to play a massive role in the way wrist spinners will shape up the manner in which cricket would evolve in a couple of years as well.”

Sridharan Sriram, the spinning coach of the Royal Challengers Bangalore chimed in with his piece, citing, “He was always ahead of the game. He was always talking about how he was going to bowl in the rough. He started really wide and he would get into the mindset of the batter, forcing him to advance his pads. He would get the ball stump by stump and then pitched it on the leg. He had this knack of setting the batters up and he would always talk about a 4-5 over process.”

“He never said that I am getting the batter out this ball. He would say that he foresaw the batter getting out 3-4 overs later. That was how he approached his craft. It is so sad to see that a tactical genius like him is no more with us today. The amount of knowledge he passed onto the next generation, simply signifies the unquantifiable loss that the following generations will have to bear,” he further added.