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Australian cricketers beat Transvaal baseball side — at baseball!

Despite the absence of Don Bradman, the South Africans were thrashed by Vic Richardson's men. Then their baseball players challenged the Australians — at baseball.

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Don Bradman was very conscious of being a role model: Arthur Morris

Arthur Morris was hailed by Bradman as the greatest opening bat with Barry Richards.

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Clarrie Grimmett takes 13 wickets at Durban in what would turned out to be his farewell Test match

March 3, 1936. Clarrie Grimmett ended the series in South Africa with a haul of 13 wickets at Durban, bringing his tally in the series to 44. Strangely, this was to be his final Test match. Arunabha Sengupta recalls the way the little gnome-like leg spinner vanquished the South African batting.

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Clarrie Grimmett: the man who created the flipper

Clarrie Grimmett was the first bowler to 200 Test wickets.

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Bill O’Reilly: the greatest leg-spinner of all time

Don Bradman called Bill O'Reilly the greatest bowler he had seen.

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10 cricketers whom Sir Don Bradman rubbed the wrong way

Former Australian cricketer Gary Cosier recently made headlines by saying that the 1970s Australian cricketers hated Don Bradman. Arunabha Sengupta says that it is not surprising and lists a number of men Bradman rubbed the wrong way during his long career as a player, captain and administrator.

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The Many Men Who Disliked Don Bradman

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Cricketing Rifts-1: The Bradman-centric and religion-fuelled Australian feuds

The Mahendra Singh Dhoni-Virender Sehwag rift may have been denied vehemently by the team management, but the divide between the two is very much an open secret. However, far from being unique, discords such as this have been commonplace in the history of the game. In this series by CricketCountry, Arunabha Sengupta looks at some of the most famous feuds of cricket.

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