Top 5 Chinaman bowlers the world has seen

#2 Chuck Fleetwood-Smith

Chuck Fleetwood-Smith turned the ball a fair bit

A prodigious turner of the cricket ball, Chuck Fleetwood-Smith took 42 wickets for Australia in 10 Tests between 1935 and 1938. It is said that Fleetwood-Smith was ambidextrous and after breaking his right arm while in school, he came up with the unconventional bowling action with the other arm.

The left-arm wrist spinner took 597 first-class wickets and it is widely believed that he would have played many more games for the side, but for the competition in the form of Bill O'Reilly and Clarrie Grimmett.

However, Fleetwood-Smith did make his mark for the Australian side by playing a key role in helping the Don Bradman led side turn-around 0-2 deficit in the 1937 Ashes to win 3-2.

The dismissal of Wally Hammond in the fourth Test is often spoken of to be in the same league as that of Shane Warne’s that dismissal of Mike Gatting. Bradman later described the wicket as “If ever the result of a Test match can be said to have been decided by a single ball, this was the occasion.”