Sydney: Architects have studied 81-year-old footage of Don Bradman at his childhood home to complete an award-winning restoration of the property.
Bradman is said to have honed his batting skills in the Australian country town of Bowral by spending hours hitting a golf ball against the base of his home's metal water tank using a cricket stump as a bat.
Architects from Sydney firm Clive Lucas Stapleton & Partners won the New South Wales National Trust Heritage Award on Wednesday after they used 1932 footage of Bradman's training regime to help recreate the house he lived in until the age of 15.
Bradman died in 2001 aged 92. He is widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time with a test average of 99.94 runs from 52 matches....
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04:51 PM, May 08, 2013
New Delhi: Sachin Tendulkar has always been showered with the biggest of compliments but former Australia opener Matthew Hayden took it to a new level as he placed the senior batsman above the game itself while calling him India's Don Bradman and a "movement in himself". "They will write books and do movies on him in the coming years because he has taken Indian cricket to a new level, and...
01:28 PM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: Former Indian cricket captain Sunil Gavaskar is happy to be a part of Dickie Bird's all-time Test XI even as some former cricketers called the ex-English umpire's composition as "biased" and "ill-balanced". "Dickie has been one of the most respected and popular umpires in the game, so it's good to know that I am in his team," Gavaskar said. The cricket fraternity in India expressed shock at the...
06:10 PM, Apr 19, 2013
New Delhi: The cricket fraternity in India on Friday expressed shock at the omission of legends like Sachin Tendulkar and Don Bradman in the all-time Test eleven named by former English umpire Dickie Bird with some former cricketers calling his composition as "biased" and "ill-balanced". Former captain Sunil Gavaskar was the only Indian included in the controversial team which has Pakistani all-rounder Imran Khan as the captain. Besides the omission...
01:15 PM, Apr 19, 2013
New Delhi: Dickie Bird, the former international umpire, has not found space for three of the modern era's greatest batsman - Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara and Ricky Ponting - as well as the legendary Don Bradman in his list of the greatest Test XI. Bird, ahead of his 80th birthday, had his greatest-ever XI published in The Telegraph but conspicuous with their absence from the list were the top ten...
03:38 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Every year
Wisden picks Five Cricketers of the Year to salute a player's influence on the previous English season. Is it time the list was renamed 'Five Cricketers of the
English Year'? Or its reach broadened to international not just domestic cricket? Or do we need another list to mark international achievement? ...
02:36 PM, Feb 08, 2013
"Sachin Tendulkar is a step ahead of Sir Don in terms of cricketing achievements," the Pakistan legend said. ...
06:57 PM, Jan 05, 2013
The right-handed batsman holds the record of scoring unbeaten 443 runs for Maharashtra against Kathiawar in a Ranji Trophy match. ...
01:43 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Clarke's double ton against South Africa Thursday was his fourth this year, the highest by a player in a calendar year. ...
09:53 AM, Nov 23, 2012
Clarke smashed 224 in the second Test against the SA in Adelaide, a few days after hitting a double ton in the first Test. ...
09:45 PM, Nov 22, 2012
The winner, who must demonstrate strong participation in cricket, will have half his or her tuition fees paid for the duration of a degree at the University of Wollongong south of Sydney. ...
02:49 PM, Oct 29, 2012
Gavaskar will receive the award at the BCCI awards ceremony to be held shortly. ...
05:03 PM, Oct 25, 2012
Scoring his 30th Test ton in the 2nd Test against Pakistan, Sangakkara went past Bradman's record of 29 centuries. ...
01:28 PM, Jul 04, 2012
MCA is toying with an idea of erecting a statue of Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar at Wankhede Stadium. ...
04:19 PM, Jun 21, 2012
Tendulkar said he does not want to walk down the path of comparisons. ...
06:09 PM, Mar 02, 2010
The contenders include Bradman, Pele, Woods and Schumacher. ...
03:05 PM, Jun 10, 2009
Muder Patherya has 4 such letters and 14 autographed paintings from Don. ...
01:41 PM, Dec 17, 2008
Sachin Tendulkar praised Ganguly's contribution to Indian cricket. ...
08:52 AM, Nov 10, 2008
Sir Donald Bradman's birth centenary was celebrated on Wednesday. ...
09:33 PM, Aug 27, 2008
Nasty on-field environment is prevalent in international matches these days. ...
09:07 PM, Aug 27, 2008
