#bradman — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bradman, aggregated by home.social.
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Football has evolved, but Barrie Robran would have been a ‘champion in any era’
It was typical of Barrie Robran that when he was asked to reflect on what he described as…
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3rd #Cricket Test, #Australia in #England, Day 1
(AKA why Test Cricket is great entertainment, part 1)
Having won the toss and bowled on a lively wicket, the English team looked to have seized the initiative having the four best Aussie batters out by lunch
Enter Mitch Marsh, who did a #Bradman and scored a century in a session to wrest the initiative away from the English. But not to be outdone, the England bowlers knocked Marsh over on the stroke of tea and wrapped up the innings for 263
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CW: Cricket, Bradman, politics
The annals of "Australian cricketers with huge tickets on themselves" are extensive.
Despite the tough competition, Bradman, whose manual THE ART OF CRICKET contains disquisitions on gentlemanly conduct aboard cruise ships, probably remains peerless.
The book's rhetoric marked Bradman out as a conservative lickspittle of the British Empire—no surprise he wrote a "dry" economic manifesto to Malcolm Fraser.