A few months back I came up with my best Australian XI.
Some people were dismayed at the fact I left out Don Bradman and Shane Warne, but I thought I had good reason to leave out both.
Warne was left out for the great Tiger Bill O’Reilly, a man who was never dominated by any batsman.
I have seen Warne dominated by Lara, Cronje, Ranatunga, most of India’s top order and his mum’s diet pills, so I chose the safer option.
Also, Bill has a far greater nick name than Warne.
As for Bradman’s omission that was simple, Keith Miller and Tiger Bill had to put up with that whiny little perfectionist their most of their careers, so I gave them a break from him.
Some international readers may not know that inside the Australian dressing room Donald wasn’t always the most liked man.
Tiger Bill said
“Don Bradman was a teetotaller, ambitious, conservative and meticulous. I was outspoken and gregarious, an equally ambitious young man of Irish descent.”
If Don Bradman wasn’t the world’s first probot, then he was Jango Fett.
Glad to see someone else isn’t taken in by the “saint bradman” fantasy that most cricket lovers have
I think there is a few of us out there rusty.
It’s almost the same thing that they say about Sir Richard Hadlee.no-one liked that fucker, because he thought he was god.
Thought, Suave? I et he still does, the non-smiling, moustached twat.
Suave, one thing i will say in hadlee’s defence was at least he never pretended to be a good bloke.