At 170cm (5' 7"), Bradman was not a big man, but he was athletic and very fast on his feet.
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Fingelton, Jack (1949): Brightly Fades the Don, 1985 Pavilion Library reprint.
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At Limb's funeral, the former Whitlam government minister Doug McClelland said that Bobby Limb was to the Australian entertainment industry what Sir Donald Bradman was to cricket, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith was to aviation, Dame Joan Sutherland was to opera, and Dr Victor Chang was to surgery.
When his owner was quizzed about the defeat he declared "Phar Lap got beaten and Bradman got a duck".
Sean Fagan's rl1908.com site quotes a Donald Bradman biography which records that Weissel was playing for a Riverina representative side on 22 November 1926 at the Sydney Cricket Ground against a Southern Districts side in which Bradman was making his SCG debut.
In all, he played 455 first-class matches, amassing 34,346 runs at 49.70, including 103 centuries—making him one of a select few to score a "century of centuries", one of only four non-English cricketers to do so (the others being Donald Bradman, Zaheer Abbas and Viv Richards).
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Among the eight batsmen who have done this, only Turner and Donald Bradman did it while playing for a touring team.
Note that "an innings" can mean a particular side's innings (Sri Lanka made 464 in the third innings of the game) or that of both sides (England had the better of the first innings, outscoring Australia by 104), or that of an individual batsman (Bradman was out for a duck in the final innings of his career), the difference being understood by context.
His full Test debut came against Donald Bradman's formidable side in 1948, when he struggled to make runs against the opening attack of Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller.
After early roles in 1980s soap operas such as The Young Doctors, Prisoner and Sons and Daughters and the miniseries Bodyline (in which she appeared as Jessie Bradman, Donald Bradman's wife).
As the home ground of the Kensington Districts Cricket Club, Sir Donald Bradman played there often in the 1930s.
Maharashtra were 826/4, with B. B. Nimbalkar having scored 443 not out, the first (and only) quadruple century in Indian first-class cricket, and nine runs behind Sir Donald Bradman's world record score of 452 not out.
His claim to fame as a cricketer was dismissing Donald Bradman, caught and bowled for 369, in a first-class match against South Australia, the legendary batsman's second highest ever score at that level.
Ron Hamence was a member of Donald Bradman's famous Australian cricket team of 1948, which toured England and was undefeated in its 34 matches.
However some better known personalities remained, notably Sir Donald Bradman.
Around the MCG are sculptures of Australian sporting heroes including: Australian rules footballers Ron Barassi and Dick Reynolds; cricketers Sir Donald Bradman and Keith Miller; athletics "golden girl" Betty Cuthbert.