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Jack Fingleton
Wed, February 11 2015
Bill Lawry’s batting frustrates a taxi driver!
When an impatient pedestrian patted the taxi with his umbrella, the taxi-driver jumped out and punched the man.
Mon, March 07 2016
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.
Wed, April 27 2016
Jack Fingleton: Gutsy batsman, prolific writer and obsessed with Don Bradman
Jack Fingleton was the first man to score four hundreds in four Test innings. A prolific writer about the game, whose often splendid commentaries were blackened by his extreme antagonism for Don Bradman.
Thu, September 17 2015
Ashes 1936-37: Don Bradman plays top-ranked innings as per Wisden
Bradman was under pressure after losing his first two Tests as captain in 1936-37 Ashes.
Mon, December 07 2015
Bill O’Reilly: the greatest leg-spinner of all time
Don Bradman called Bill O'Reilly the greatest bowler he had seen.
Fri, August 26 2016
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.
Mon, September 01 2014
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.