Eager crowds had gathered to watch the greatest batsman of all time come out of retirement - but it wasn’t to be Sir Donald Bradman’s day.
This week I’ll visit my dad and we’ll watch the cricket on TV and I’ll remind him how Test cricket is still the most beguiling and beautiful game of all.
When Christians and so-called “Christian” nations dismember the Christian message by victimising others,they show the weakness of their grasp of the meaning of Jesus Christ,not the weakness of the message.
Sir Donald Bradman personally intervened at the most explosive juncture of Australian political history,writing to Malcolm Fraser two days after the 1975 “dismissal”.
No one told Ian Meckiff he was walking into what amounted to a premeditated ambush in the 1963 Gabba Test against South Africa.
Steve Smith is chasing history very few have ever been able to contemplate;Marnus Labuschagne,five years the younger,is eagerly chasing Smith.
Can we not agree that our blokes deserve about five “one-point lucky wins” before we call it all even on the card?
Roger Federer,who has announced his imminent retirement,has claims to be the best sportsman in all senses of the word in most people’s living memory.
David Boon is in line to become the most legendary Australian cricketer to lead a state association since Sir Donald Bradman
35 years ago,Sir Donald Bradman made an emotional return to the Adelaide Oval for a charity match. A bevy of cricket stars joined Bradman in the testimonial game for former Australian Test batsman Les Favell,who had a serious kidney ailment.
The stylishly renovated Victorian home has been listed after Bradman recently snapped up a South Yarra residence for $15 million from Grill’d burger mogul Simon Crowe.