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Australians on Wednesday marked the centenary of their greatest
sporting hero, cricketer Don Bradman, by celebrating the fact
his unbeaten record is still untouchable 60 years after he quit
the sport.
Bradman, who died in 2001 aged 92, played his last match in
England in 1948 and retired with a yet-to-be topped Test
batting average of 99.94.
Australian media used the occasion to revisit the legend of the ‘Boy from Bowral’ whose run-scoring feats lifted the hopes of the country during the Depression and inspired generations of sportsmen and women to come.
Newspapers splashed images of the small-statured batsman across their pages while television bulletins re-broadcast rare snippets from interviews with ‘The Don’, who loathed his celebrity.
