Clarence Victor "Clarrie" Grimmett was a New Zealand-born Australian cricketer.
16 Facts About Clarrie Grimmett
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Clarrie Grimmett is thought by many to be one of the finest early spin bowlers, and usually credited as the developer of the flipper.
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Clarrie Grimmett played club cricket in Wellington, and made his first-class debut for Wellington at the age of 17.
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Clarrie Grimmett played club cricket in Sydney for three years.
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Clarrie Grimmett moved to South Australia in 1923, but it is for his performances in Test cricket for the Australian cricket team that he is best remembered.
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Clarrie Grimmett played 37 Tests between 1924 and 1936, taking 216 wickets at an average of just 24.21 runs apiece.
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Clarrie Grimmett took two five wicket hauls on debut against England in Sydney in 1925.
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Clarrie Grimmett became the first bowler to reach the milestone of taking 200 Test wickets, and is one of only five Test bowlers that played in their first Test after the age of thirty to take more than 100 wickets, the other four being Dilip Doshi, Saeed Ajmal, Ryan Harris and Mohammed Rafique.
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Clarrie Grimmett took an average of six wickets per match.
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Clarrie Grimmett remains the one of the few bowlers with career figures of over 200 wickets in fewer than 40 Tests.
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Clarrie Grimmett held the record for the fastest bowler to take 200 wickets in Tests, doing so in his 36th match.
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Clarrie Grimmett took a five-wicket haul on 21 occasions, seven times finishing with ten wickets or more in a match.
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Clarrie Grimmett took 513 wickets in his 79 Sheffield Shield matches.
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Clarrie Grimmett was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1931, the same year as Donald Bradman.
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Clarrie Grimmett died in Kensington Park, Adelaide, in 1980, but was posthumously inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 1996 as one of the ten inaugural members.
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On 30 September 2009, Clarrie Grimmett was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.