"Greatest Batsman Ever on a Good Wicket"
LONDON, Mareh 1. Plum Waruer, in the Morning Post, says: "Surely Bradman is the greatest batsman the world hag ever seen on a good wicket. There have been iiner sticky wicket batsmen, for example, Hobbs, John Tyldealey, Trumper, Ranji, Fry, Hammond and Sutcliffe, but it can be only a matter of practice on such wickets before Bradman with his wonderful eyes, Fred Astaire feet and genius for improvising strokes is at least their equal. "Is he destined tp break his own records one day and score 400 or 500 in a test? I can imagine W. G, Grace, ln elysiau fields, tugging his 5eard and muttering: 'This boy looks better than 1 was.' Even Grace 's colossal deeds pate
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 39, 2 March 1937, Page 11
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126"Greatest Batsman Ever on a Good Wicket" Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 39, 2 March 1937, Page 11
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