who is don bradman?

Answer 1

I am going to agree with every thing else is said in this msg by someone else except he has got every stat wrong..i m going to correct it for you here we go...

don bradman was a great legend of australia
his real name is Sir Donald Bradman
his avg was 99.94 and not 99.75
he made 29 test centuries in 52 (about 50) test matches
12 and not 11 dbl hundreds
he was the most dependable batsmen whom the bowler didnt want to bowl
In his farewell match if he wud have made 4 not 2 runs his avg cudve been 100 but he cudnt make it bcoz he bcame emotional while btting and got out for 0 his 1 st

that wasn't his first zero, if you go look up in cricinfo u can see that it was his 6th duck.

He was a legend,
some of his achievements
hitting 310 runs in one day of a test match, his individual runs.
caught behind only once in his career
a test average so uniquely high that nonone lse comes close
and 29 centuries from just 52 test, compare that to sachin's 35 out of 130+ matches. see the diffrence?

Answer 2

Don Bradman is one of the greatest player in the world who holds the record of the best average in Test Match Cricket

Answer 3

Sir Donald George Bradman, AC (August 27, 1908 — February 25, 2001), often called The Don, was an Australian cricketer who is universally regarded as the greatest batsman of all time. He is one of Australia's most popular sporting heroes, and one of the most respected past players in other cricketing nations, as was demonstrated upon the occasion of his death. His career Test batting average of 99.94 is by some measures the greatest statistical

Answer 4

don bradman was a great legend of australia
his real name is Sir Donald Bradman
his avg was 99.75
he made 29 test centuries in about 50 test matches
11 dbl hundreds
he was the most dependable batsmen whom the bowler didnt want to bowl
In his farewell match if he wud have made 2 runs his avg cudve been 100 but he cudnt make it bcoz he bcame emotional while btting and got out for 0 his 1 st

Answer 5

He was the greatest batsman ever to play cricket. People often quote his batting average (6996 runs at 99.94) but apart from basic statistics, many of which will never be broken, he was a tremendous ambassador and role model for life beyond just cricket in a way which is very rare in any sport. He also meant (and still does mean, despite having died a few years ago) and incredible amount to the people of Australia - reluctantly revered as a demi-god of sorts.

Some could argue that he was as important and iconic to cricket as Babe Ruth was to baseball, Michael Jordan to basketball, Tiger Woods or Jack Nicklaus to golf, Pele to football, Seabiscuit and Phar Lap to horse racing, and so on.

Furthermore, like Babe Ruth/Phar Lap/Seabiscuit, he was a focal point for people at a time when economic woes meant that sport was possibly the only bright light in people's lives - with history books often referencing the adulation poured onto him, that brought people to tears and stopped people at work as they listened to his exploits on the radio.

Look up these names on the internet and you'll get an idea of the reverence he still commands.

Answer 6

Don Bradman is an Australian batting legend...
He used to play for Australiia long back.. He used to score many centuries..

Answer 7

If victory is unpredicted and quite uncommon, it may flow to the pinnacle and do all varieties of tricks. undesirable Younus, do no longer blame him for his hallucinations!! only pity him and something of the Pakis in tens of millions, as they rightfully deserve for having annexed the call of the WWF style of interest with the aid of fluke!! Btw, did Younis grow to be Younus via fact of an astrologer or a numerologist? Flukes do want those superstitious adult adult males, do no longer they?

Answer 8

An Australian batting legent and Idol of all the batsmen

Answer 9

Sir Donald Bradman of Australia was, beyond any argument, the greatest batsman who ever lived and the greatest cricketer of the 20th century. Only WG Grace, in the formative years of the game, even remotely matched his status as a player. And The Don lived on into the 21st century, more than half-a-century after he retired. In that time, his reputation not merely as a player but as an administrator, selector, sage and cricketing statesman only increased. His contribution transcended sport; his exploits changed Australia's relationship to what used to be called the "mother country". Throughout the 1930s and '40s Bradman was the world's master cricketer, so far ahead of everyone else that comparisons became pointless. In 1930, he scored 974 runs in the series, 309 of them in one amazing day at Headingley, and in seven Test series against England he remained a figure of utter dominance; Australia lost the Ashes only once, in 1932-33, when England were so spooked by Bradman that they devised a system of bowling, Bodyline, that history has damned as brutal and unfair, simply to thwart him. He still averaged 56 in the series. In all, he went to the crease 80 times in Tests, and scored 29 centuries. He needed just four in his last Test innings, at The Oval in 1948, to ensure an average of 100 �- but was out second ball for 0, a rare moment of human failing that only added to his everlasting appeal. Bradman made all those runs at high speed in a manner that bewildered opponents and entranced spectators. Though his batting was not classically beautiful, it was always awesome. As Neville Cardus put it, he was a devastating rarity: "A genius with an eye for business." Matthew Engel


"He's out!" - to the thousands who read them, whether they were interested in cricket or not, the two words blazoned across the London evening newspaper placards could have meant only one thing: somewhere, someone had managed to dismiss Don Bradman, of itself a lifelong claim to fame.

Sir Donald George Bradman was, without any question, the greatest phenomenon in the history of cricket, indeed in the history of all ball games. To start with, he had a deep and undying love of cricket, as well, of course, as exceptional natural ability. It was always said he could have become a champion at squash or tennis or golf or billiards, had he preferred them to cricket. The fact that, as a boy, he sharpened his reflexes and developed his strokes by hitting golf ball with a cricket stump as it rebounded off a water tank attests to his eye, fleetness of foot and, even when young, his rare powers of concentration.

Bradman himself was of the opinion that there were other batsmen, contemporaries of his, who had the talent to be just as prolific as he was but lacked the concentration. Stan McCabe, who needed a particular challenge to bring the best of him, was no doubt one of them. "I wish I could bat like that", Bradman's assessment of McCabe's 232 in the Trent Bridge Test of 1938, must stand with W.G.'s "Give me Arthur" [Shrewsbury], when asked to name the best batsman he had played with, as the grandest tribute ever paid by one great cricketer to another.

So, with the concentration and the commitment and the calculation and the certainty that were synonymous with Bradman, went a less obvious but no less telling humility. He sought privacy and attracted adulation.

How did anyone ever get him out? The two bowlers to do it most often, if sometimes at horrendous cost, were both spinners--Clarrie Grimmett, who had ten such coups to his credit with leg-breaks and googlies, and Hedley Verity, who also had ten, eight of them for England. Is there anything, I wonder, to be deduced from this? Both, for example, had a flattish trajectory, which may have deterred Bradman from jumping out to drive, something he was always looking to do.

Grimmett was not, in fact, the only wrist-spinner to make the great man seem, at times, almost mortal. Bill O'Reilly was another--Bradman called him the finest and therefore, presumably, the most testing bowler he played against--as were Ian Peebles and Walter Robins; and it was with a googly that Eric Hollies bowled him for a duck in his last Test innings, at The Oval in 1948, when he was within four runs of averaging 100 in Test cricket. Perhaps, very occasionally, he did have trouble reading wrist-spin; but that, after all, is its devious purpose.

By his own unique standards, Bradman was discomfited by Bodyline, the shameless method of attack which Douglas Jardine employed to depose him in Australia in 1932-33. Discomfited, yes--but he still averaged 56.57 in the Test series. If there really is a blemish on his amazing record it is, I suppose, the absence of a significant innings on one of those "sticky dogs" of old, when the ball was hissing and cavorting under a hot sun following heavy rain. This is not to say he couldn't have played one, but that on the big occasion, when the chance arose, he never did.

His dominance on all other occasions was absolute. R. C. Robertson-Glasgow called the Don "that rarest of Nature's creatures, a genius with an eye for business." He could be 250 not out and yet still scampering the first run to third man or long leg with a view to inducing a fielding error. Batsmen of today would be amazed had they seen it, and better cricketers for having done so. It may be apocryphal, but if, to a well-wisher, he did desire his 309 not out on the first day of the Headingley Test of 1930 as a nice bit of practice for tomorrow, he could easily have meant it.

He knows as well as anyone, though, that with so much more emphasis being placed on containment and so many fewer overs being bowled, his 309 of 70 years ago would be nearer 209 today. Which makes it all the more fortuitous that he played when he did, by doing so, he had the chance to renew a nation and reinvent a game. His fame, like W.G.'s, will never fade.

Answer 10

he is cricket DON, and BRAD minded, and gentle MAN.