Don Bradman’s eleventy-first birthday, a thread
On the occasion of the 111th anniversary of Donald George Bradman’s birthday – August 27 2019 – I searched up a number of unusual non-cricketing items about The Don from contemporary newspapers, with thanks to the National Library of Australia’s glorious Trove database: Happy eleventy-first birthday to Sir Donald Bradman. Being born on August 27 […]
Dennis Lillee at 70, a thread
A thread I posted to Twitter to commemorate Dennis Lillee’s 70th birthday on July 18 2019: In my opinion the most popular figure in Australian cricket since Bradman retired. Happy 70th birthday to Dennis Lillee. Here is the day he took 8/29 against the Rest of the World in 1971: https://t.co/CW3z4Ml3zn — Rick Eyre on […]