The passing of “The Don”

“and when the one great scorer comes to write against your name, He writes not that you won or lost, but how you played the game”—grantland rice

It seems appropriate to paraphrase the words of an American sports broadcaster to describe the passing of Sir Donald George Bradman. He was an extraordinary man in a time of extraordinary cricketers. Even today, more than half a century after his retirement, the mere mention of his name fills my breast with national fervour. Every boy in Australia playing backyard cricket imagines himself as “The Don” making a ton in …