'Fleetwood-Smith was a left arm spin bowler, bowling out of the back of his hand. He was one of the rare bowlers who managed to impart spin on the hardest of wickets at any pace he bowled including medium pace bowling. Another player who played in the Bodyline Series of 1932/3, Walter Hammond was one of the few bowlers who mastered his action, scoring freely against the Australian in the series and again 6 years later on home soil.

Remarkably he toured England in 1934 without playing a Test match - remarkable due to the fact that he took 106 first class wickets during the tour costing only 19.20 a wicket. He never seemed to capture his first class form in Test matches and was always a nearly player, unable to transfer his bowling to a higher level. Unfortunately Leslie Fleetwood-Smith died in Melbourne in 1971 without a penny to his name.