5 best players of spin from Australia

#3 Michael Clarke

The fact that former Australian middle-order great Michael Clarke is one of the country's greatest player of spin is beyond question.

It was evident in his debut Test against India in Bengaluru back in 2004, when he slammed a superb 151 to help his team go one up in the series and since then, he proved to be totally in control against spin bowlers.

Clarke's biggest strength was the speed at which he could come down the track or rock back on to his back foot to anything that was even marginally short.

He did it against some of the best spinners in the world and quite often on raging turners for more than a decade.

He scored a century in all but one of his tours to India and he was equally good in Sri Lanka, where he scored a century and fifty in his last tour back in 2011. He remains one of the best players of spin Australia has ever had.