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Sir Donald Bradman
Anand Chitalia says(creater of the site):
"He was a wonderful player who seemed to caress the ball. He was a genius. It is a massive blow to cricket. He had balance, saw the ball early and had a tremendous eye."
Bradman, cricket's greatest, is dead:
Sir Donald died Sunday morning in his home in Adelaide, South Australia. He will be cremated in a private family ceremony later this week.
Bradman was to cricket what Tiger Woods is to golf, Michael Jordan is to basketball and Babe Ruth is to baseball.
He towered over the game as a player and became the living embodiment of all that cricket fans saw as good sportsmanship and fair play.
Sir Donald Bradman
He was known to many as The Don and was worshipped throughout the cricketing world, perhaps more avidly in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka than in his homeland.
The number 99.94 is legendary in Australia because it is Bradman's batting average. He required just four runs in his last innings to record an average of 100, but was out for no score.
Some say it was because he had a tear in his eye from the crowd's rapturous welcome. At the peak of his batting powers, when he was scoring hundreds of runs almost at will, one newspaper poster in Britain simply said: 'He's Out' and everyone knew what had happened.
Bradman led the touring Australian 1948 side which did not lose a match in England and became known as The Invincibles, rated by many as the best-ever cricket side.
Before the war, an English captain named Douglas Jardine tried to use fast, bouncing bowlers to beat Bradman. The Bodyline series caused such controversy that it was on the verge of escalating into a political crisis between England and Australia.
Tributes were pouring in for Bradman on Monday from all over the cricketing world.
Sir Donald's son, John, said the private service and cremation in Adelaide would be followed several weeks later by a public memorial service, also in Adelaide.
That service would be held at night to allow as many people as possible to take part.
"The family asks that the privacy of the funeral be respected," Bradman said.
"The memorial service will be open to the public."
Mr Bradman said his father had asked that instead of sending flowers, mourners should send donations to the Bradman Foundation in Bowral, New South Wales, for a special Bradman Memorial Fund.
"This special trust fund is to be separately administered through the foundation by a committee comprising the foundation, the Australian Cricket Board and the Bradman family," he said.
"The fund will go entirely to the promotion and encouragement of cricket in disadvantaged communities, including indigenous communities."
Director of the Bradman Foundation Richard Mulvaney confirmed the cricket legend's death Monday morning.
"Sir Donald Bradman died yesterday morning, peacefully at his home, after a short illness with pneumonia," Mulvaney told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Mulvaney said Sir Donald died peacefully in his sleep.
Cricket's bible, Wisden, last year named Bradman as the best cricketer of the 20th century.
Record unlikely to be bettered:
Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Sir Donald had been Australia's most dominant figure for many decades. Howard made an unscheduled trip to see Sir Donald in his Adelaide home just last week and said he had been aware of how ill he was.
"I want to express on behalf of the entire Australian nation our sympathy," Howard said.
Sir Donald is survived by his son John and daughter Shirley after Lady Jessie Bradman died in September 1997.
Raised in the small country town of Bowral in the state of New South Wales, Sir Donald was revered by cricketers the world over, and many of his accomplishments as a batsman are unlikely to be eclipsed.
He moved from New South Wales to Adelaide in 1934 with his wife and two children.
In 52 Test matches from 1928 to 1948, he scored 6,996 runs at an average of 99.94.
Following his retirement from first class cricket in 1949, Sir Donald became an Australian selector and served two, three-year terms as chairman of the Australian Cricket Board.
Tributes flow for Sir Donald :
Australian Prime Minister John Howard said: "I want to express on behalf of the entire Australian nation our sympathy and send our love to the Bradman family and record the appreciation of the Australian people for a wonderful life, which not only gave this country and the world the greatest cricketer and according to many people who compare these things, perhaps the greatest sportsman in 100 years."
Don Bradman
Howard said Sir Donald had been his hero since he was a young child and he had remained a hero to him all his life.
Here are some other memorable quotes:
"He is probably the most important Australian of all time." -- Former Australian captain Richie Benaud.
"I saw much better batsmen than I was. Lots of them...they just kept getting out." -- Bradman, during a rare television interview in 1996.
"No other batsman, surely, has ever been able to score so fast while at the same time avoiding risk." -- R.C. Robertson-Glasgow in his oft-quoted 1949 tribute to Bradman in Wisden.
"Poetry and murder lived in him together. He would slice the bowling to ribbons and dance without pity on the corpse." -- R.C. Robertson-Glasgow again.
"Despite recent sad developments, cricket will survive and remain our most noble game and I shall always remain proud of the part I played in its history and development." -- Bradman on match-fixing, August 2000.
"Nobody will ever emulate the feats of The Don again. He would have been supreme in any era and had he played in the modern game, would no doubt have topped the lists of all batting achievements." -- Former England captain David Gower.
"No-one doubted his ability but playing under him was different to chaps like (Bill) Woodfull or (Vic) Richardson. One sensed (they were) playing for Australia; with Bradman it seemed like for his own personal glory. This, perhaps, was not altogether his fault but that is how the players felt." -- Former Australian batsman Jack Fingleton.
"He was the best." -- Former English fast-bowling great Fred Trueman.
"He was a genius. It is a massive blow to cricket." -- Ex-test umpire Dickie Bird.
"I've spoken to the greatest of batsmen on the telephone on the eve of his birthday, and found him his usual spry, clear-headed self, though worried by a mountain of mail." -- writer E.W. Swanton.
"He reminded Australians that they were capable of great things in their own right." -- Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
"A good captain must be a fighter; confident but not arrogant, firm but not obstinate; able to take criticism without letting it unduly disturb him, for he is sure to get it -- and unfairly, too." -- Bradman.
"His performances in England in 1930, right at the heart of the Depression, gave the nation hope. Of course it carried on until 1948 when he retired. He was seen as someone of enormous integrity. He wrote 80 letters a day, four hours a day." -- Bradman biographer Roland Perry, who added it is estimated one million fans have received hand-written replies from Bradman.
"He's out!" -- an English newspaper when Bradman was finally dismissed after scoring a world record 334 at Leeds in 1930.
"Bradman bats and bats and bats." -- An English newspaper after Bradman's triple century at Leeds in 1934.
"Bradman is dead. Nation mourns greatest hero." -- Sydney's Daily-Telegraph on Monday.
Former Australian cricket captain Mark Taylor said Sir Donald was the greatest Australian he had ever met.
"Fifty-three years after playing his final Test match, he was still revered around the world, held in incredible esteem. As a cricketer, the world has known no equal. He was the true symbol of fine sportsmanship, the benchmark that all young cricketers aspired to.
"His innings may have closed but his legacy will forever live on in the hearts of millions of Australians."
England's chairman of selectors, David Graveney, said: "The word icon is perhaps used too often, but it does apply to him. I don't think his batting record will ever be touched."
'Dominant figure':
Sir Donald Bradman, the most prolific batsman in test cricket who died on Sunday aged 92, was idolized by generations of Australians as the greatest sportsman in the country's history.
Revered for his exploits at the crease either side of World War Two, the increasingly reclusive Bradman surrendered his wicket as grudgingly as he would embrace public adulation later in life.
The country boy from Australia's bush, regarded by many of his sports-mad compatriots as a living icon, rewrote the record books during a first-class career that spanned 21 years and inspired a growing nation.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard once described Bradman as a national treasure and Australia's first great hero.
"[I] sent our love to the Bradman family and record the appreciation of the Australian people for a wonderful life which not only gave this country and the world the greatest cricketer but, according to many people who compare these things, perhaps the greatest sportsman in 100 years," Howard said on Monday.
Achievements
Bradman's achievements would have been even more daunting but for an enforced break in his career when he served in the Royal Australian Air Force and army during World War Two.
In later years, Bradman shunned publicity, making only occasional public appearances and agreeing to even fewer media interviews. If anything, his reclusive lifestyle merely added to his mystic appeal in Australia.
However, Bradman made an exception in 1988 when he recorded a series of interviews charting his life with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to mark the nation's bi-centenary.
In 1996, after rejecting a succession of lucrative offers, Bradman agreed to an interview with Australia's Channel Nine network, owned by billionaire Kerry Packer.
But his motive was not for profit.
The publicity-shy Bradman only agreed on the understanding that Packer would make a donation, believed to be A$1.0 million (US,000), to complete construction of the Bradman Museum in his home town of Bowral in rural New South Wales.
Asked during the interview to explain why his records have remaining unchallenged, The Don struggled for an answer, saying: "I saw much better batsmen than I was. Lots of them... they just kept getting out."
During another interview, Bradman, who was knighted in 1949, talked about a game he invented as a boy which, unbeknown to him at the time, helped develop his phenomenal reflexes and timing.
School
For hours after school each night, the young Don would practice his batting, using a cricket stump, golf ball, and a rusty water tank.
"I threw the golf ball at the tank with one hand, while holding the stump with the other hand, and as the ball rebounded I gripped the stump in two hands and tried to play a shot," explained Bradman.
"At the time I had not the slightest idea this would build my reflexes. I was only trying to amuse myself."
Those lightning reflexes, which Bradman believed were enhanced by his insistence on using a lighter bat, were put to the severest test during the infamous "Bodyline" series against England in 1932-33.
Three years earlier during Australia's victorious Ashes tour to England, Bradman had humbled the English bowling attack, scoring a then test world record score of 334 at Headingley in Leeds.
England captain, Douglas Jardine, desperate to win back the Ashes on Australian soil, devised an intimidating form of bowling to curb Bradman. England's fast bowlers, led by the fiery Harold Larwood, aimed short-pitch legside deliveries at the batsman's body rather than the wicket.
The tactic, branded unsportsmanlike by Australians, strained relations between the two countries. But it worked, shaking Bradman's dominance for the first and only time.
Lofty
England, who comfortably won the series 4-1, restricted Bradman to a batting average of 56.57 for the series -- a highly respectable performance in itself but one considered mediocre by his own lofty standards.
In 1934, Bradman exacted revenge by amassing over 2,000 runs in England, including 304 in a test at Headingley. Two years later, he took over as Australian captain, leading the country for 12 years until his retirement.
Born in Cootamundra in rural New South Wales on August 27, 1908, Bradman moved as a child to Bowral, 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Sydney.
Although he lived with his wife Jessie in Adelaide for most of his adult life, Bradman has always been associated with Bowral.
It was here that the couple met in childhood before joining in a marriage that lasted 65 years until Jessie died of cancer, aged 88, in September 1997.
The town honored its favorite adopted son in 1989 by opening a museum to commemorate his achievements, including scoring over 300 runs on six occasions and hitting hundreds in six successive innings.
He also scored a then world record 452 not out for New South Wales against Queensland in 1929, one of 127 first class centuries -- another Australian record.
After retiring, Bradman became an Australian selector and remained active behind the scenes until 1986 when he severed all official links with the game.
Following the proliferation of test cricket over the past 20 years, several players have surpassed Bradman's test aggregate score. But no-one has threatened his status as cricket's greatest ever batsman.
Bradman's achievements have only grown in time.
Former Australian captain Mark Taylor equaled Bradman's Australian test record of 334 against Pakistan in 1998, but declined the opportunity to pass him, declaring his innings closed out of respect to The Don.
When former Australian captain Allan Border became the highest test scorer in history in February, 1993, with 10,161 runs from 139 tests, he put his achievement in perspective by saying: "Goodness knows how many runs Sir Don would have got in that many tests."
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Anand Chitalia says(creater of the site):
"He was a wonderful player who seemed to caress the ball. He was a genius. It is a massive blow to cricket. He had balance, saw the ball early and had a tremendous eye."
Bradman, cricket's greatest, is dead:
Sir Donald died Sunday morning in his home in Adelaide, South Australia. He will be cremated in a private family ceremony later this week.
Bradman was to cricket what Tiger Woods is to golf, Michael Jordan is to basketball and Babe Ruth is to baseball.
He towered over the game as a player and became the living embodiment of all that cricket fans saw as good sportsmanship and fair play.
Sir Donald Bradman
He was known to many as The Don and was worshipped throughout the cricketing world, perhaps more avidly in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka than in his homeland.
The number 99.94 is legendary in Australia because it is Bradman's batting average. He required just four runs in his last innings to record an average of 100, but was out for no score.
Some say it was because he had a tear in his eye from the crowd's rapturous welcome. At the peak of his batting powers, when he was scoring hundreds of runs almost at will, one newspaper poster in Britain simply said: 'He's Out' and everyone knew what had happened.
Bradman led the touring Australian 1948 side which did not lose a match in England and became known as The Invincibles, rated by many as the best-ever cricket side.
Before the war, an English captain named Douglas Jardine tried to use fast, bouncing bowlers to beat Bradman. The Bodyline series caused such controversy that it was on the verge of escalating into a political crisis between England and Australia.
Tributes were pouring in for Bradman on Monday from all over the cricketing world.
Sir Donald's son, John, said the private service and cremation in Adelaide would be followed several weeks later by a public memorial service, also in Adelaide.
That service would be held at night to allow as many people as possible to take part.
"The family asks that the privacy of the funeral be respected," Bradman said.
"The memorial service will be open to the public."
Mr Bradman said his father had asked that instead of sending flowers, mourners should send donations to the Bradman Foundation in Bowral, New South Wales, for a special Bradman Memorial Fund.
"This special trust fund is to be separately administered through the foundation by a committee comprising the foundation, the Australian Cricket Board and the Bradman family," he said.
"The fund will go entirely to the promotion and encouragement of cricket in disadvantaged communities, including indigenous communities."
Director of the Bradman Foundation Richard Mulvaney confirmed the cricket legend's death Monday morning.
"Sir Donald Bradman died yesterday morning, peacefully at his home, after a short illness with pneumonia," Mulvaney told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Mulvaney said Sir Donald died peacefully in his sleep.
Cricket's bible, Wisden, last year named Bradman as the best cricketer of the 20th century.
Record unlikely to be bettered:
Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Sir Donald had been Australia's most dominant figure for many decades. Howard made an unscheduled trip to see Sir Donald in his Adelaide home just last week and said he had been aware of how ill he was.
"I want to express on behalf of the entire Australian nation our sympathy," Howard said.
Sir Donald is survived by his son John and daughter Shirley after Lady Jessie Bradman died in September 1997.
Raised in the small country town of Bowral in the state of New South Wales, Sir Donald was revered by cricketers the world over, and many of his accomplishments as a batsman are unlikely to be eclipsed.
He moved from New South Wales to Adelaide in 1934 with his wife and two children.
In 52 Test matches from 1928 to 1948, he scored 6,996 runs at an average of 99.94.
Following his retirement from first class cricket in 1949, Sir Donald became an Australian selector and served two, three-year terms as chairman of the Australian Cricket Board.
Tributes flow for Sir Donald :
Australian Prime Minister John Howard said: "I want to express on behalf of the entire Australian nation our sympathy and send our love to the Bradman family and record the appreciation of the Australian people for a wonderful life, which not only gave this country and the world the greatest cricketer and according to many people who compare these things, perhaps the greatest sportsman in 100 years."
Don Bradman
Howard said Sir Donald had been his hero since he was a young child and he had remained a hero to him all his life.
Here are some other memorable quotes:
"He is probably the most important Australian of all time." -- Former Australian captain Richie Benaud.
"I saw much better batsmen than I was. Lots of them...they just kept getting out." -- Bradman, during a rare television interview in 1996.
"No other batsman, surely, has ever been able to score so fast while at the same time avoiding risk." -- R.C. Robertson-Glasgow in his oft-quoted 1949 tribute to Bradman in Wisden.
"Poetry and murder lived in him together. He would slice the bowling to ribbons and dance without pity on the corpse." -- R.C. Robertson-Glasgow again.
"Despite recent sad developments, cricket will survive and remain our most noble game and I shall always remain proud of the part I played in its history and development." -- Bradman on match-fixing, August 2000.
"Nobody will ever emulate the feats of The Don again. He would have been supreme in any era and had he played in the modern game, would no doubt have topped the lists of all batting achievements." -- Former England captain David Gower.
"No-one doubted his ability but playing under him was different to chaps like (Bill) Woodfull or (Vic) Richardson. One sensed (they were) playing for Australia; with Bradman it seemed like for his own personal glory. This, perhaps, was not altogether his fault but that is how the players felt." -- Former Australian batsman Jack Fingleton.
"He was the best." -- Former English fast-bowling great Fred Trueman.
"He was a genius. It is a massive blow to cricket." -- Ex-test umpire Dickie Bird.
"I've spoken to the greatest of batsmen on the telephone on the eve of his birthday, and found him his usual spry, clear-headed self, though worried by a mountain of mail." -- writer E.W. Swanton.
"He reminded Australians that they were capable of great things in their own right." -- Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
"A good captain must be a fighter; confident but not arrogant, firm but not obstinate; able to take criticism without letting it unduly disturb him, for he is sure to get it -- and unfairly, too." -- Bradman.
"His performances in England in 1930, right at the heart of the Depression, gave the nation hope. Of course it carried on until 1948 when he retired. He was seen as someone of enormous integrity. He wrote 80 letters a day, four hours a day." -- Bradman biographer Roland Perry, who added it is estimated one million fans have received hand-written replies from Bradman.
"He's out!" -- an English newspaper when Bradman was finally dismissed after scoring a world record 334 at Leeds in 1930.
"Bradman bats and bats and bats." -- An English newspaper after Bradman's triple century at Leeds in 1934.
"Bradman is dead. Nation mourns greatest hero." -- Sydney's Daily-Telegraph on Monday.
Former Australian cricket captain Mark Taylor said Sir Donald was the greatest Australian he had ever met.
"Fifty-three years after playing his final Test match, he was still revered around the world, held in incredible esteem. As a cricketer, the world has known no equal. He was the true symbol of fine sportsmanship, the benchmark that all young cricketers aspired to.
"His innings may have closed but his legacy will forever live on in the hearts of millions of Australians."
England's chairman of selectors, David Graveney, said: "The word icon is perhaps used too often, but it does apply to him. I don't think his batting record will ever be touched."
'Dominant figure':
Sir Donald Bradman, the most prolific batsman in test cricket who died on Sunday aged 92, was idolized by generations of Australians as the greatest sportsman in the country's history.
Revered for his exploits at the crease either side of World War Two, the increasingly reclusive Bradman surrendered his wicket as grudgingly as he would embrace public adulation later in life.
The country boy from Australia's bush, regarded by many of his sports-mad compatriots as a living icon, rewrote the record books during a first-class career that spanned 21 years and inspired a growing nation.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard once described Bradman as a national treasure and Australia's first great hero.
"[I] sent our love to the Bradman family and record the appreciation of the Australian people for a wonderful life which not only gave this country and the world the greatest cricketer but, according to many people who compare these things, perhaps the greatest sportsman in 100 years," Howard said on Monday.
Achievements
Bradman's achievements would have been even more daunting but for an enforced break in his career when he served in the Royal Australian Air Force and army during World War Two.
In later years, Bradman shunned publicity, making only occasional public appearances and agreeing to even fewer media interviews. If anything, his reclusive lifestyle merely added to his mystic appeal in Australia.
However, Bradman made an exception in 1988 when he recorded a series of interviews charting his life with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to mark the nation's bi-centenary.
In 1996, after rejecting a succession of lucrative offers, Bradman agreed to an interview with Australia's Channel Nine network, owned by billionaire Kerry Packer.
But his motive was not for profit.
The publicity-shy Bradman only agreed on the understanding that Packer would make a donation, believed to be A$1.0 million (US,000), to complete construction of the Bradman Museum in his home town of Bowral in rural New South Wales.
Asked during the interview to explain why his records have remaining unchallenged, The Don struggled for an answer, saying: "I saw much better batsmen than I was. Lots of them... they just kept getting out."
During another interview, Bradman, who was knighted in 1949, talked about a game he invented as a boy which, unbeknown to him at the time, helped develop his phenomenal reflexes and timing.
School
For hours after school each night, the young Don would practice his batting, using a cricket stump, golf ball, and a rusty water tank.
"I threw the golf ball at the tank with one hand, while holding the stump with the other hand, and as the ball rebounded I gripped the stump in two hands and tried to play a shot," explained Bradman.
"At the time I had not the slightest idea this would build my reflexes. I was only trying to amuse myself."
Those lightning reflexes, which Bradman believed were enhanced by his insistence on using a lighter bat, were put to the severest test during the infamous "Bodyline" series against England in 1932-33.
Three years earlier during Australia's victorious Ashes tour to England, Bradman had humbled the English bowling attack, scoring a then test world record score of 334 at Headingley in Leeds.
England captain, Douglas Jardine, desperate to win back the Ashes on Australian soil, devised an intimidating form of bowling to curb Bradman. England's fast bowlers, led by the fiery Harold Larwood, aimed short-pitch legside deliveries at the batsman's body rather than the wicket.
The tactic, branded unsportsmanlike by Australians, strained relations between the two countries. But it worked, shaking Bradman's dominance for the first and only time.
Lofty
England, who comfortably won the series 4-1, restricted Bradman to a batting average of 56.57 for the series -- a highly respectable performance in itself but one considered mediocre by his own lofty standards.
In 1934, Bradman exacted revenge by amassing over 2,000 runs in England, including 304 in a test at Headingley. Two years later, he took over as Australian captain, leading the country for 12 years until his retirement.
Born in Cootamundra in rural New South Wales on August 27, 1908, Bradman moved as a child to Bowral, 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Sydney.
Although he lived with his wife Jessie in Adelaide for most of his adult life, Bradman has always been associated with Bowral.
It was here that the couple met in childhood before joining in a marriage that lasted 65 years until Jessie died of cancer, aged 88, in September 1997.
The town honored its favorite adopted son in 1989 by opening a museum to commemorate his achievements, including scoring over 300 runs on six occasions and hitting hundreds in six successive innings.
He also scored a then world record 452 not out for New South Wales against Queensland in 1929, one of 127 first class centuries -- another Australian record.
After retiring, Bradman became an Australian selector and remained active behind the scenes until 1986 when he severed all official links with the game.
Following the proliferation of test cricket over the past 20 years, several players have surpassed Bradman's test aggregate score. But no-one has threatened his status as cricket's greatest ever batsman.
Bradman's achievements have only grown in time.
Former Australian captain Mark Taylor equaled Bradman's Australian test record of 334 against Pakistan in 1998, but declined the opportunity to pass him, declaring his innings closed out of respect to The Don.
When former Australian captain Allan Border became the highest test scorer in history in February, 1993, with 10,161 runs from 139 tests, he put his achievement in perspective by saying: "Goodness knows how many runs Sir Don would have got in that many tests."
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