Who is the real Legend in Cricket?? Bradmen ? Or ?

Question

who ever like bradmen can give a stat.....

Answer 1

No other batsman will ever come close to "the Don". Here is a run down from cricinfo.

Sir Donald Bradman

Australia

Full name Donald George Bradman
Born August 27, 1908, Cootamundra, New South Wales
Died February 25, 2001, Kensington Park, Adelaide, South Australia (aged 92 years 182 days)
Major teams Australia, New South Wales, South Australia
Nickname The Don
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak
Height 5 ft 7 in



Batting and fielding averages Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 6s Ct St
Tests 52 80 10 6996 334 99.94 29 13 6 32 0
First-class 234 338 43 28067 452* 95.14 117 69 131 1


Bowling averages Mat Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 4w 5w 10
Tests 52 9 160 72 2 1/8 1/15 36.00 2.70 80.0 0 0 0
First-class 234 2114 1367 36 3/35 37.97 3.87 58.7 0 0


Career statistics Statistics Statsguru Tests
Test debut Australia v England at Brisbane, Nov 30-Dec 5, 1928 scorecard
Last Test England v Australia at The Oval, Aug 14-18, 1948 scorecard
First-class span 1927/28 - 1948/49


Notes
New South Wales Career Span: 1927-28 to 1933-34
South Australia Career Span: 1935-36 to 1948-49<
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1931
Australian Cricket Hall of Fame 1996
Knighted for services to cricket 1949
Appointed Commander of the Order of Australia (AC) 1979
Selected as one of five Wisden Cricketers of the Century, 2000


Profile


Wisden overview
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

Wisden Essay
"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.
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

Answer 2

The highest no. of runs, centuries or wickets will remain in record books. And the real statistics is which tells how nice a cricketer is (or was), not only on and off the field, but also in his life after his playing career ended. And, Don Bradman excelled all others in being a gentleman par excellence. And, if one goes by the present jungle culture of the Australian cricketers, it would even be unbelievable to know that Don Bradman was unostentatious and modest and he never knew to swear at a rival player.
Sadly, none of the Australian cricketers or their Cricket Control Board are aware of all this. Or, they have forgotten it as an unwanted past history of their cricket.

Answer 3

The real legend in Cricket is Sir Don Bradman.

Answer 4

Don Bradman is still the real Legend in Cricket.

Answer 5

Certainly !!!! There is no other player in cricket history, the batsmen like Sir Donald Bradman. He is the legend.

Answer 6

Bradmen
Pointing
kapil dev
Dravid
Sachin
These all are real legends for the team

Answer 7

Sachin Tendulkar
means more to india than Bradman did to austrailia
tendulkar plays in an era where tecnology is evoling and the likes of liam plunkett are quicker than fred truman
Tendulkar single handely bought cricket alive in india and look how much they care about it it's like a religion

Answer 8

Always Bradmen is the legend

Answer 9

It's Don Bradman, he is still a legend.

Answer 10

Bradman is the one of the legend cricketer.But like this man kapil dev is also one among them who gave India, a brilliant world cup by his captaincy.

Answer 11

Sir Don Bradmen.
No doubt