I had a chat with Adithya Vadapalli for an hour on December 19 for The Switch Hit Podcast about a broad range of issues relating to Australian cricket over the years.
Show notes: https://soundsfromthepitch.podbean.com/e/interview-with-rick-eyre/
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 made him a Virgo, as the astrology page of the Australian Women’s Weekly of 14/9/38 reminds us: pic.twitter.com/ajPwN4eVSp
— Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket) August 27, 2019
“Kindly and clever Virgoans are always in danger of developing into exacting tyrants. The remedy is in thejr own hands.”
June Marsden, President of the Astrological Research Society with advice for the future head of the Australian Cricket Board of Control https://t.co/e4QRGywn3M— Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket) August 27, 2019
They don’t publish high school exam results in the local papers any more. Don Bradman’s Intermediate Certificate exam results reported in the Robertson Advocate of 23/2/23 (source https://t.co/5ypoakaFMm) pic.twitter.com/ycJ391mf7D
— Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket) August 27, 2019
On the 111th anniversary of the birth of Donald George Bradman here is the sheet music for his musical composition “Every Day Is A Rainbow Day For Me”… https://t.co/FYA2CQKJ1X
— Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket) August 27, 2019
and here is “Every Day Is A Rainbow Day For Me” sung by the Don’s granddaughter Greta: https://t.co/L2KfOkMbin
— Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket) August 27, 2019
“The decisive factor was the amazing footwork of Bradman, who has only been playing squash three years. He has been playing a fair amount of golf this season.” https://t.co/hKRcn7Csuc
— Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket) August 27, 2019
Yesterday’s Papers Today: the Adelaide Test 1932-33
Third Test, Adelaide, January 13-19 1933: England 341 and 412, Australia 222 and 193. England won by 338 runs.
One of the most infamous Test matches in the history of contests between Australia and England began on Friday the Thirteenth of January 1933. The timeless Test ended the following Thursday in a decisive England victory and the unfolding of an international incident. Continue reading “Yesterday’s Papers Today: the Adelaide Test 1932-33”
Yesterday’s papers today: Broadcasting the Ashes 1928 1932
Broadcasting the Ashes of 1928-29 and 1932-33 – some clippings from the newspapers of the time as preserved by Trove, the glorious digital archive hosted by the National Library of Australia:
Broadcast arrangements for the Brisbane Test for Melbourne listeners. #Ashes1928 https://t.co/ZXcAC9RiU2
— Rick Eyre (@rickeyrecricket.com on Bluesky) (@rickeyrecricket) November 21, 2017
Continue reading “Yesterday’s papers today: Broadcasting the Ashes 1928 1932”
London 2012 Day After One: Party like it’s 1948
The Olympic Games are over. Now let’s take some deep breaths, and take some time to get the euphoria out of our systems before reflecting on what it all means. Continue reading “London 2012 Day After One: Party like it’s 1948”
A hundred years of Bradman
August 27, 2008 – a day of celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Donald George Bradman. And they celebrated at his birthplace, Cootamundra, the hometown of his youth, Bowral, and in a black tie dinner at the business end of Sydney. Has any other sportsperson, in any sport, anywhere in the world, been celebrated quite so much as The Don? Continue reading “A hundred years of Bradman”
It’s back to the 80s day for Australian cricket
December 24, 1984: Australia loses a women’s Test to England.
September 19, 1988: Australia follows on in a men’s Test match against Pakistan.
August 27, 2005: The next occasion that Australia follows on in a men’s Test.
August 27, 2005: The next occasion Australia loses a women’s Test match.
Happy 97th, Sir Don.
Bring back the Don’s cap, and onya the Black Caps
The streak is over. Australia’s run of twenty-one successive one-day wins has been cut down by the West Indies in Trinidad this morning. Which is a good moment to spare a thought for the New Zealand cricket team. Continue reading “Bring back the Don’s cap, and onya the Black Caps”
Don Bradman 87 Not Out – A Television Review
When I heard that “A Current Affair”‘s Gold Logie winning anchorperson Ray Martin had obtained the rights to an exclusive interview with Sir Donald Bradman – the last interview he intends to give – I recoiled with horror. “Toupee Ray” – the former king of daytime television – the frontman of night-time tabloid journalism – the man who gave us such showbiz interview extravaganzas as “Top Blokes And Good Sorts” – allowed to share the same airspace as the man considered by most the Greatest Living Australian? Continue reading “Don Bradman 87 Not Out – A Television Review”