5 Test players don't rate The Don

http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/542383.html
Is it true that in a recent book five Australian Test players didn't select Don Bradman in their best-ever Aussie team? asked Brian Collins from London
It is indeed. The book in question is a great slab of a thing called Australia: Story of a Cricket Country, edited by Chris Ryan, an old colleague of mine on Wisden Cricket Monthly, and published in Australia by Hardie Grant. It's a lavishly illustrated anthology of some of the best Aussie cricket writing - some of the pictures are quite superb (as are Ryan's captions) - but an original feature was that he wrote to all the surviving Australian Test players asking them to choose the five players they thought were the country's five greatest cricketers. No fewer than 121 replied, of which 116 voted for Bradman - but five didn't (he still came out on top, just ahead of Shane Warne with 109). One of them was Tony Dell, who played two Tests in the early 1970s: he explained that "while he was the best bat of his time, footage of opposition bowlers leads me to believe that he would not have fared well in the Chappell era". The identity of the other four non-Donners is not divulged, so we can all have fun imagining who they might be!

One of them was Tony Dell, who played two Tests in the early 1970s: he explained that "while he was the best bat of his time, footage of opposition bowlers leads me to believe that he would not have fared well in the Chappell era".

FFS.

Chappelli was almost certainly one of the others.

Well i'm sure one of them is Chappelli. He is the king of grudges and will diss a player's on field performances because he has a problem with them personally.

Was Keith Miller allowed to vote posthumously?

Can only be motivated by the fact Bradman was a qunt.

Brass Monkey wrote:Can only be motivated by the fact Bradman was a qunt.

Given that, how can you pick an ATG Aussie team.

I think his quntishness was special... i.e. even the Aussies could pick up on it.

He was considered a war dodger. Got himself a cushy desk job during the war (by allegedly exaggerating an illness) whilst other players had messerschmitts up their arses.

Or not.

It's all wind and blather anyway. Who cares a flying fig what Kerry O'Keefe thinks?

Pete, you like to stick the boot into dead Australian legends... fill said boots man....

KOK isn't dead - unless you mean, in the head.

(But not AFAIK a Garcia fan.)

Nobody can fill the Don's boots.

He was the Corleone of cricket.

I meant that you gave Miller a written elbow-drop when he'd already been knocked out.

Only to soften the all-too-easy boot on The Don, delivered from a safe distance.

i.e.

If it is alleged that DGB was a cowardly pretend-conshy, whereas (it is alleged) others were war heroes ....

and the point is established that the war hero cited was not SUCH a war hero as all that ...

then the sneer loses some of its force.


If you be receiven my meanen.

Well, what a tactic. Have you thought about doing something in the war business?

What's this - Mr Lucky?

OP Tipping wrote: One of them was Tony Dell, who played two Tests in the early 1970s: he explained that "while he was the best bat of his time, footage of opposition bowlers leads me to believe that he would not have fared well in the Chappell era". The identity of the other four non-Donners is not divulged, so we can all have fun imagining who they might be!

Finally, we have it. SRT>DGB

Plebeians can make peace among themselves.

Helllllooooo Aditya.... India won. And here you are. Well well well. Welly welly welly. What a funny old business. But nice to see you, all the same.

Brass Monkey wrote:Helllllooooo Aditya.... India won. And here you are. Well well well. Welly welly welly. What a funny old business. But nice to see you, all the same.

I knoe. Its lyk I kno pplz wont be noticin my funny old biz. But you clever thing!

Well this is a taxing mental joust admittedly.

Your first post on this thread was exactly as I'd imagined... at least the gist of it.

You've only got 100 posts and I feel like I know you so well already... **fans face** my gosh, this is all happening so fast....

Aditya wrote:

OP Tipping wrote: One of them was Tony Dell, who played two Tests in the early 1970s: he explained that "while he was the best bat of his time, footage of opposition bowlers leads me to believe that he would not have fared well in the Chappell era". The identity of the other four non-Donners is not divulged, so we can all have fun imagining who they might be!

Finally, we have it. SRT>DGB

Plebeians can make peace among themselves.

The mention of those two in the same sentence reminds me of something I noticed last week. Bradman ended his career averaging 99.94. Tendulkar could end his career with 99 centuries, and the closest he came to the hundredth being a 94...

Brass Monkey wrote:Can only be motivated by the fact Bradman was a qunt.

Jardine thought so too ... sadly, look where that got him!!

Bradman = FTbully and soft cowardly turd.... the Oz equivalent of WG.

JGK wrote:

One of them was Tony Dell, who played two Tests in the early 1970s: he explained that "while he was the best bat of his time, footage of opposition bowlers leads me to believe that he would not have fared well in the Chappell era".

FFS.

Chappelli was almost certainly one of the others.

Tony Dell isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, and Crappelli is a quntish grudge holder. They are entitled to their opinion but they've embarrassed themselves in this instance.