Top 5 Australian Test spinners of all time

1 Shane Warne

Shane Warne (second left) bowls Darryl Cullinan of South Africa

With 708 Test match wickets in 145 Test matches, Shane Warne is not only Australia's greatest ever spinner but perhaps the greatest bowler that has ever played for the country. Warne made his Test debut for Australia back in 1992 and over the next 15 years, emerged as arguably the best spin bowler in the world.

His ability to turn the ball to varying degrees, from the benign turner to the absolute ripper, made him an unplayable bowler at times and over the course of his career, he made plenty of top batsmen look like absolute fools.

On the other hand, he could bowl the googly, the flipper and seemed to develop new deliveries every few years that made him an innovator of sorts as far as the art of leg spin bowling is concerned.

An average of 25.41 in 145 games and strike rate of 57.4 is well and truly the mark of a giant of the game. It is unlikely that Australia will ever produce another spinner of his calibre.