by Arunabha Sengupta
Old Trafford, 2005.
The setting was the same ground where he had spun his first Test delivery in the Mother Country across the entire expanse of Mike Gatting and thus had become the bogey man for England for the next decade and a half.
However, this particular dismissal lacked the dramatic delight of that epochal one.
Second session on the first day.
At a steepling 163 for one, Marcus Trescothick, batting on 63, knelt down to sweep Shane Warne.
The ball hit all sorts of things except the middle of his bat. The back of his willow, his glove, his leg and then Gilhcrist’s thigh. It did pop up after that the Aussie wicketkeeper held on to a not so spectacular catch.
And thus Warne became the first bowler in the history of the game to get 600 wickets. Yet another special moment in that extraordinary series.
Just that one wicket for Warne on that day, though.
He did finish with an impressive 4 for 99 on the morrow, but England totalled 444, riding the mammoth 166 by captain Michael Vaughan.
But in that match the ace leggie would go on to play a far more significant role with the bat.