It was reputedly invented by the Australian leg-spinner Clarrie Grimmett.

When Clarrie Grimmett first began bowling the delivery, batsmen would listen for the telltale clicking sound of his fingers ; to compensate, Grimmett would often click the fingers of his non-bowling hand when not bowling the flipper to confuse the batsman.

Commenting on Australia's victory, the team's vice-captain Vic Richardson said, "... we could have played any team without Bradman, but we could not have played the blind school without Clarrie Grimmett ".

Significantly, Australia's most successful bowler Clarrie Grimmett was replaced by Ward, one of four players making their debut.

* Wisden Cricketers of the Year – Donald Bradman, Clarrie Grimmett, Beverley Lyon, Ian Peebles, Maurice Turnbull

* Most wickets – Clarrie Grimmett 82 @ 23. 69 ( BB 7 – 136 )

* Most wickets – Clarrie Grimmett 77 @ 19. 93 ( BB 7 – 83 )

The team, led by Bill Woodfull – the " Great Un-bowlable " – featured legends of the game including Bill Ponsford, Stan McCabe, Clarrie Grimmett and the young pair of Archie Jackson and Don Bradman.

The bowling was dominated by the spin pair of Bill O ' Reilly and Clarrie Grimmett, who took 53 wickets between them, with O ' Reilly twice taking seven wicket hauls.

* Most wickets – Clarrie Grimmett 74 @ 19. 14 ( BB 7 – 87 )

* Most wickets – Clarrie Grimmett 59 @ 30. 40 ( BB 6 – 76 )

* Most wickets – Clarrie Grimmett 42 @ 27. 40 ( BB 8 – 57 )

* Most wickets – Clarrie Grimmett 71 @ 34. 25 ( BB 6 – 109 )

While Bradman dominated, Hammond found it very difficult to play the leg spin bowling of Clarrie Grimmett, who dismissed him five times.

In the same game, Clarrie Grimmett collected fourteen wickets, the most ever taken in a Test match at the ground by a bowler.

He played very cautiously, being troubled by Clarrie Grimmett and Bert Ironmonger, the Australian spinners.

Woodfull performed poorly in the Tests, with 228 runs at 28. 50, but it was sufficient for an Australian triumph as Bradman and Ponsford each averaged over 90 and Clarrie Grimmett and Bill O ' Reilly each took over 25 wickets.

Clarence Victor " Clarrie " Grimmett ( 25 December 1891 – 2 May 1980 ) was a cricketer ; although born in New Zealand, he played most of his cricket in Australia.

On 30 September 2009, Clarrie Grimmett was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.

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In 1996 he was posthumously included in the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame as one of the ten inaugural inductees along with Jack Blackham, Victor Trumper, Clarrie Grimmett, Bill Ponsford, Don Bradman, Bill O ' Reilly, Keith Miller, Ray Lindwall and Dennis Lillee.

One of the toughest competitors he faced was the Australian leg spinner Clarrie Grimmett, " a tiny gnome of a man ", who bowled with a roundarm action and made his Test debut at the age of 34, taking 11 wickets in his first match.

One English pressman wrote that this was Bodyline, to the anger of Vic Richardson, Alan Kippax and Clarrie Grimmett who had seen the real thing.

" Smith also played " Clarrie " in the Doctor Who audio, The Kingmaker.

He played his childhood cricket on concrete wickets in Moore Park and learnt to bowl from reading Clarrie Grimmett's instructional book, Getting Wickets.

* 1932 – Centre-forward Clarrie Bourton heads the Football League scoring lists with 49 goals.

His father Clarrie worked in a newsagency in Launceston, while his mother Lesley represented Australia at hockey before working with Clarrie at the newsagency after David was born.

Team-mate Clarrie Grimmett suggested that McCabe play with a fuller face of the bat, advice that the batsman accepted.

In his second first-class match in the 1934 – 35 season, and his fourth overall, he confirmed his batting ability with 58 and 86 against the South Australian bowling attack led by Clarrie Grimmett, the world's leading leg spinner at the time, but was unable to prevent an eight-wicket defeat.

To improve accessibility of the Group Centre, it is expected that Clarrie Hermes Drive will be extended through to the Barton Highway at its westerly end in parallel with or at the conclusion of Casey's development

Clarrie Grimmett's 29 wickets at 31. 89 for Australia in this high-scoring series were also important.

He took 65 first-class wickets at an average of 20. 16, surpassing Clarrie Grimmett's record for most wickets in a season for a South Australian bowler.

Lindwall forced his way back into the Test team at 37 years of age in the following season, breaking Clarrie Grimmett's Australian Test record of 216 wickets.

Lindwall was determined to add to his Test tally of 212 wickets, which was just four behind the Australian record of Clarrie Grimmett.

His 29 wickets in five Tests equalled the highest obtained for Australia in England by Clarrie Grimmett in 1930.

South of Mount Warning Doon Doon Creek which is dammed by the Clarrie Hall Dam and Perch Creek enter the Tweed from its southern banks and Byrill Creek joins on the northern side near Terragon.

Supporters of the cultural revolution that left included the Clarrie O ' Shea backed Committee to Reconstruct the Communist Party of Australia founded in 1984 and which later changing its name to the Committee for a Revolutionary Communist Party in Australia, and the Marxist Workers Party of Australia who continue to publish Red Flag.

In 1983 it was recommended by the State Boundaries Commission that Strathfield be amalgamated into Burwood, however a great deal of uproar greeted this plan and after the then mayor, Clarrie Edwards, spoke in well attended public meetings the state government abandoned the plan due to a great deal of opposition from residents of the area.

The following season, he joined Second Division club Bournemouth on a near season-long loan, where he scored in ten consecutive games, equalling John Aldridge's and Clarrie Jordan's post-war record.

Characters impersonated include Clarrie and Eddie Grundy, stumbling from one crisis to another, Joe Grundy and his incomprehensible yokel accent, Jack Woolley ’ s incomprehensible Brummie, posh Brian Aldridge, snooty Lynda Snell, and Geordie-accented Ruth " Oh noooh " Archer.

Queen Elizabeth II, Anne Robinson, Judi Dench and M, Cherie Blair, Sophie Raworth, Fiona Bruce, Delia Smith, Patricia Routledge, Margaret Thatcher, Charlotte Green, Norah Jones, Natasha Kaplinsky, Kate Adie, Clarrie Grundy, Germaine Greer, Clare Short, Ann Widdecombe, Hillary Clinton, Meryl Streep, Ellen MacArthur, Kirstie Allsopp, Carol Smillie ( Smiley Carol ), Linda Barker, Nigella Lawson, Kirsty Wark, Frodo Baggins, Sharon Osbourne, Lesley Garrett, Jessie Wallace, Tessa Jowell, Amanda Burton, Thora Hird, Sue McGregor, Barbara Windsor, Carol Vorderman, Gwen Stefani, Madonna, Caroline Quentin, Tom Cruise, C. J.

The son of Clarrie and Lesley, David Boon was born in the Northern Tasmanian city of Launceston on 29 December 1960.