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A recap of our #BallsOfTheCentury series in the @cricketmonthly - the top 20 deliveries in Test cricket in the 21st century. From No. 20 to No. 2 🧵👇🏽

'It was a great ball. It was something that I would say was probably a better ball than Shane Warne [to Mike Gatting]'

That delivery from @MontyPanesar to @sachin_rt in Mumbai is at No. 20 in our #BallsOfTheCentury es.pn/3k52ew9

'I call it a fluke because I think it was a fluke, like Warney's ball of the century was a fluke'

At No. 19 in our #BallsOfTheCentury, Jason Krejza bowls @VVSLaxman281 with venomous turn es.pn/33GDZ1J

The perfect split-finger legcutter!

A slower ball to get the pulse racing at No. 18: es.pn/3ar1gGq #BallsOfTheCentury

'The crack definitely made it look better than it was'

This ball from Mitchell Starc to James Vince is ranked 17th in our #BallsOfTheCentury, but it might be No. 1 if the rankings were wholly based on unplayability es.pn/3hq58tC

If there was ever a ball to remove an immovable object, it would be hard to find a better example.

At No. 16, @sreesanth36 gets @jacqueskallis75 with some nasty bounce es.pn/3ja6SrB #BallsOfTheCentury

A howling thunderbolt of a yorker that angled in and curved away late to send off stump spinning like a toothpick in a gale.

@jacqueskallis75 at the receiving end again, this time from @flintoff11, in No. 15 in our #BallsOfTheCentury es.pn/3jEKXJc

Wicked, diabolical, genuine inswing from @jimmy9 makes it to No. 14 es.pn/3gWmGwz #BallsOfTheCentury

'You may think it is a fraction of a second, but as soon as you release the ball, you know there is something magical. That it is exactly the way you had wanted it to be'

That @IrfanPathan yorker to @gilly381 is at No. 13 in our #BallsOfTheCentury: es.pn/2TtXt3e

What's for lunch?

A slower one, served hot from @Jaspritbumrah93 to Shaun Marsh, is at No. 12 es.pn/3hq4Dz2 #BallsOfTheCentury

'It sounds like music. There's never been a sound quite like it'

Reverse swing from Simon Jones that made you drool, and left Michael Clarke bamboozled, in at No. 11: es.pn/3n4cerg #BallsOfTheCentury

'For that delivery I didn't take a long stride, I didn't stretch. It gave room for the ball to turn and hit the off stump'

At No. 10 in our #BallsOfTheCentury, the only time VVS Laxman was bowled by Shane Warne in his career es.pn/3cLxg9q

Andrew Flintoff summoned up a knockout blow so sublime, it's hard to say how many Ricky Pontings in how many parallel universes are still being confounded by his mind-bending action on the ball.

No. 9 in our #BallsOfTheCentury: es.pn/3inL7nv

'[Mohammad] Yousuf knew as soon as I bowled the delivery that it's coming in. But it came in so much that after pitching, he couldn't cover it'

No. 8: When Irfan Pathan got a hat-trick by curling one like a banana es.pn/2I740P1 #BallsOfTheCentury

How do you play an offspinner who turns it that much? You don't.

At No. 7 in our #BallsOfTheCentury, @markbutcher72 had no chance against this Muttiah Muralitharan delivery: es.pn/34F9gkn

In the words of @OsmanSamiuddin: 'Gilchrist's bat comes down from gully but the ball's delivered in BC and his bat's down in AD, that's how late he is.'

A great reverse-swinging yorker from @shoaib100mph is at No. 6: es.pn/35dFDXS #BallsOfTheCentury

'Sometimes they get themselves out, these batsmen'

@DaleSteyn62's special on debut to @MichaelVaughan is at No. 5 in our #BallsOfTheCentury es.pn/35mj0QO

Turn so sharp from @ShaneWarne to Andrew Strauss that it could cut through your psyche. No. 4 in our #BallsOfTheCentury es.pn/34AlPPl

'He probably didn't think - and I also didn't - that that ball could hit the off stump'

The No. 3 in our #BallsOfTheCentury surprised the bowler Muttiah Muralitharan as much as the batsman S Ramesh es.pn/2I5CWQz

'I bowled incoming balls well. But that ball cut so much it kept going in, kept going in. I don't remember one that did that much'

The perfect incoming delivery doesn't exist. Or does it?

At No. 2 in our #BallsOfTheCentury: Mohammad Asif to VVS Laxman es.pn/359NpmG

For the #BallOfTheCentury, tune in tomorrow!

Catch the #BallsOfTheCentury on @cricketmonthly: es.pn/3lykYor