5 players with the best bowling record in Australia-South Africa Tests

#1 Shane Warne

Shane Warne enjoyed intimidating and humiliating his opponents

Brash, boorish and boozy, spin wizard Shane Warne made his Test debut against India in Sydney in 1992.

At 23, he was coronated as the 'King of Spin' with his first ball in Test cricket in England. During the 1993 Ashes, Warne bowled an astonishing delivery to dismiss Mike Gatting at Old Trafford in Manchester to begin his reign that lasted 14 years and took 708 victims.

The controversy's favourite child, who took more than 1000 wickets before retiring from international cricket in 2007, is Australia's all-time leading Test wicket-taker and tops this list too.

Between 1993 and 2006, the champion leg-spinner played 24 Tests against South Africa and claimed 130 wickets at 24.16 and an economy of 2.37.

Warne, the second highest Test wicket-taker in the world, recorded seven of his 37 five-wicket hauls against the Proteas.

The bleached blond recorded his best Test figures of 12/128 in a 1994 Test against South Africa at Sydney in a losing cause.

Warne, who enjoyed intimidating and humiliating his opponents, claimed seven wickets for 56 runs in the first innings, followed by 5/72 in the second.