Top 10 players of all time from South Australia

#2 Clarie Grimmett

Clarie Grimmett

He was born in New Zealand but chose to represent Australia in international cricket and rose to become one of the greatest spin bowlers to have played for the country. Clarie Grimmett was a maddeningly accurate leg-spinner, who bowled quicker than most spinners and in addition to that, he had all the varieties. Other than the regulation leg break, he could bowl the googly and the top spinner but what made him devastating was the flipper, a delivery he is supposed to have invented.

He played for South Australia from 1924 to 1941 and during the course of his career, Grimmett rose to become one of their greatest bowlers. He picked up 668 wickets in first-class cricket for South Australia and remains their highest ever wicket-taker. There is no doubt that Clarie Grimmett is one of the greatest players to have played for the state.