Ravichandran Ashwin vs Clarrie Grimmett

[capt_Luffy]

Bradman by far. Grimmett held his own against him.

Hobbs, Hammond, Sutcliffe are at least equal or comparable. All 3 played some ridiculous innings on turners. Hammond on particular was said to be the finest player of slow spin bowling in the world, some said all time. Better than Bradman by some. Headley himself was a damn good player of spin. Those guys are better batsman than Sehwag in general and at least comparable or not that far from Sehwag against Spin.

Guys like Nourse, Leyland and Ponsford were very fine players of spin themself.

Agreed, but none of them were as destructive on song as Sehwag against spin.

 

[sayon basak]

"This ball I called my offbreak flipper, it proved to be a very successful ball, being much harder to detect then my ordinary googly because I did not have to drop my left shoulder to bowl it." C.V Grimmett.

"Both Grimmett and Pepper could bowl a bosie by some means other than out of the back of the hand. Clarrie spent years perfecting his offbreak "flicker" (sic) and then schooled Cec Pepper in the skill. Clarrie Grimmett was the greatest slow bowler the world has seen and I doubt we will see his like again." D.G Bradman

There's a footage in this video where grimmett demonstrates his flipper. Looks almost like doosra.