THERE’S DON… AND THE REST

99.94 is cricket’s most famous average and one unlikely to be unsurpassed, says MARK BROWNING.

Bany have tried. None have succeeded. Don Bradman’s Test average of 99.94 is as high and untouchable as Atlantis is deep, dark and unfathomable. Ever since the Don’s retirement in 1948 and resultant knighthood, Australia has been searching for his successor. ‘The next Bradman’ tag was bestowed on many, especially the young Sydney recordbreakers Ian Craig and Norman O’Neill in the ‘50s. Their early form was almost Bradmanesque. But as Bradman’s famed contemporary Bill Ponsford once said, competing with the Don was always futile. He was twice as good as everyone else. The Melburnian Neil Harvey, a left-hander from the inner-north, was the first to be regularly saddled with Bradman comparisons. A century in his second Test, another on his Ashes debut and an average bordering on 80 after the 1949-50 tour of…

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Universal’s Summer Cricket Guide (Digital) - 1 Issue, 2021-22

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