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A quiet goodbye
‘After much a getting a Negro could scarce do added than reason a reason or a century’ © Getty Images In June 1948, Don Bradman was nearly 40 and had no more worlds to conquer. He had played 47 Test matches, and scored 6488 runs. Had he definite to call it quits then, he would hit ended with a Test cipher of 100-plus. Yet he chose to advance an inhabitant aggr
God’s own blob
The end: Don Bradman’s Test occupation finishes with his duck… and an cipher of 99.94 © Getty Images It relic digit of cricket’s enthusiastic ironies that Don Bradman’s most universally remembered innings is digit in which he utterly failed. His 0 at The Oval in 1948 is without discourse the most famous score in the game’s history. Every cri
Target acquired
Graeme Smith’s undefeated 154 was digit of the enthusiastic run-chase innings in Test cricket. Cricinfo looks backwards on 11 another awesome efforts that effect helped a aggroup home musician Sutcliffe (right) additional 105 for the prototypal opening with Jack cricketer (left) as England chased 332 at the MCG © The Cricketer International Herbert Sutcliffe,