June 12, 1948: Donald Bradman scores 138 in the First Test at Trent Bridge
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TRENT BRIDGE, UK — Donald George Bradman was born on 27 August 1908 in Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia. One of Australia’s most popular sporting heroes, he is often regarded as the greatest batsman of all time.
3rd #Cricket Test, #Australia in #England, Day 1
(AKA why Test Cricket is great entertainment, part 1)
Having won the toss and bowled on a lively wicket, the English team looked to have seized the initiative having the four best Aussie batters out by lunch
Enter Mitch Marsh, who did a #Bradman and scored a century in a session to wrest the initiative away from the English. But not to be outdone, the England bowlers knocked Marsh over on the stroke of tea and wrapped up the innings for 263
The annals of "Australian cricketers with huge tickets on themselves" are extensive.
Despite the tough competition, Bradman, whose manual THE ART OF CRICKET contains disquisitions on gentlemanly conduct aboard cruise ships, probably remains peerless.
The book's rhetoric marked Bradman out as a conservative lickspittle of the British Empire—no surprise he wrote a "dry" economic manifesto to Malcolm Fraser.
Nothing like a visit home to remind yourself country life isn't all that boring and slow as you remember as a kid ☺️
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