[3] After marrying a Victorian, he moved to Melbourne, where he played first-class cricket for Victoria.

Many wickets in the last four years of his Test career were taken bowling in tandem with fellow leg-spinner Bill O'Reilly.

Grimmett remains the one of the few bowlers with career figures of over 200 wickets in fewer than 40 Tests.

[6] The record stood for 82 years, until Yasir Shah of Pakistan broke that mark in December 2018.

He 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.