The glory days of fearless Don Bradman
In 1929 there was no IPL and no Twenty20 slogathons, just a young Donald Bradman changing the sport for ever, writes Frank Keating in the Guardian .
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
In 1929 there was no IPL and no Twenty20 slogathons, just a young Donald Bradman changing the sport for ever, writes Frank Keating in the Guardian.
Some smiled when I named D Bradman in The Cricketer's last issue as a strong possibility for the 1st XI. Footwork, and plenty of it, is his basis. He knows the value of getting his feet near the bat when making strokes, and leaves the crease fearlessly to destroy length. He is aged 20 and shows no trace of nerves."
And so, soon, it came to pass. Just a summer later, of course, Australia came to England. In the five Test matches, home "champion" Hammond scored 306 runs with a single century; the boy Bradman scored 974 with one century, two doubles, a world-record triple, and the world was never again the same.
George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo