Don Bradman

Don Bradman Sir Donald George Bradman (27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001), nicknamed "the Don", was an Australian international cricketer, perhaps the greatest batsman of all time, As a team captain and administrator, Bradman was committed to an aggressive, entertaining cricket and drew spectators in record numbers. He was knighted in 1949. Quotes I never started out to break any records. I've always tried to do the best I can for the team that I'm playing for, and if they want me to go in and lose my wicket so that they can win the match, well, I'll be quite happy to do so. Don Bradman in England (1930) Australian Screen: An NFSA Website https://aso.gov.au/titles/newsreels/don-bradman-england/clip1/ (See National Film and Sound Archive.) What England needs is a really fast Bowling (cricket) bowler, and a good left-hand bowler of the Hedley Verity Verity type. as quoted by E. W. Swanton in: When the Telegraph met Don Bradman – the best batsman of all time. As part of our Greatest Interviews series, we go back to 1947 and an encounter with ‘the Don’ of Australian cricket 24 February 2025 The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/0/don-bradman-1947-telegraph-greatest-interviews/ Quotes about Don Bradman Poetry is more valuable than cricket, but Bradman would be a fool if he sacrificed his cricket in order to write second-rate minor poetry (and I suppose that it unlikely that he could do better). If the cricket were a little less supreme, and the poetry better, then the choice might be more difficult: I do not know whether I would rather have been been Victor Trumper or Rupert Brooke. It is fortunate that such dilemmas occur so seldom. G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology Cambridge University Press pbk 8th printing of 1992 Canto 2004 0-521-42706-1 A Mathematician's Apology https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Mathematician_s_Apology.html?id=beImvXUGD-MC&pg=PA69 69 (foreword added in 1967 by C. P. Snow; 1st published in 1940) External links Category:1908 births Category:2001 deaths Category:Cricketers from Australia Category:People from New South Wales