Watch: Curtly Ambrose cleans up Ian Healy with a very rare slow ball variation that completely befuddled the Australian wicketkeeper batsman in the first final of the Benson & Hedges World Series in 1993.
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At six foot seven inches, Curtly Ambrose is among the most intimidating fast bowlers to have graced the game, and Healy, going at a run-a-ball on 33, perhaps wasn’t fathoming the West Indian dishing out a slower ball in the death overs. Completely worked over by the lack of pace, Healy went through with the shot, only to watch the ball jog past and caress the stumps.
The bowler and the batsman broke into a laughter at the silliness of the whole dismissal. Ambrose was seen animatedly sharing laughter with his teammate as Healy walked away. West Indies went on to win the match in the same over.
Watch the incident here
