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Greg Baum unveils No
Nitin Sundar
25-Feb-2013
Greg Baum unveils No. 1 in the Sydney Morning Herald's countdown and there are no marks for guessing who perches atop the heap, the man who quietly slipped out of the game and our collective conscious, while his stats continue to leave us spellbound.
Bradman was a man of his time, but it was another time. He was a Protestant, mason, Anglophile, monarchist and knight. He loved classical music, was an adept pianist and became a champion at squash. For most of his playing days he was a teetotaller and a non-smoker. In a highly social sport he was almost a hermit. Bill O'Reilly first met him in their early teens, played with and against him, jousted with him, studied him, wrote about him, but said near the end of his own life that he hardly knew him.
Nitin Sundar is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo