West Indies Cricket Fans

SIR Garfield Sobers says Shane Warne was overrated.

The West Indies legend makes his claim in a book released today in England titled In a League of Their Own: 100 Cricket Legends Select Their World XI.

Sobers nominates India's Subhash Gupte as the finest leg-spinner of all.

"Someone who is called great from today's game is Shane Warne, but I have got my reservations about Shane," Sobers writes.

"I think people get carried away with this man's ability as he hardly ever bowled a good googly.

"To me, Shane Warne is a great turner of the ball. I like his aggressive attitude, I love the way he attacks batsmen and I give him 100 per cent for that as not enough spinners bowl with that approach, but in my estimation Subhash Gupte was a better leg-spinner."

Sobers also has a dig at former England opener Geoff Boycott: "Geoffrey was a great player in his own style. He played within his limitations and didn't take too many chances with good balls or even half-good balls.

"Great players have to take good balls and turn them in to bad balls, but Geoff never seemed to be able to do that."