Bradman's record on sticky wickets?

[fredfertang]

Neither Fingo nor Sir Nev were the Don's greatest admirers though - for me the key is his averages in his four seasons in England - 98, 84, 115 and 89 - I'd be delighted if someone could put forward a decent argument to topple him, but them as try are all pissing into the wind

 

[Red]

Aren't you from Melbourne Monk? Last I visited we had all 4 seasons in 1 day.

Also, Brisbane has a tropical climate with the usual thunderstorms that go with it. If we dig enough I'm sure that we could find scoresheets where NSW got stuck on sticky wickets at the Gabba.

Yeh, we'd have to dig though. It's the usual in England (I think) but pretty rare in summertime Australia to get enough rain to create a problem on the pitch.

 

[the big bambino]

The comment about rain and Aussie pitches is valid though. A wet wicket in England was hard but you could apply a technique to the problems. From what I've read the sun coming out after rain made Australian stickies incredibly difficult to bat on. You could excuse Bradman from thinking the task is impossible to master so why bother.

That said Sutcliffe and Hobbs batted England to a win in a Melbourne test in 1929 on a wicket made difficult by sun after rain. Even they were fortunate that Australia didn't pick Ironmonger who was deadly in those conditions.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Exactly, you can't play cricket shots on a wet Australia one, barely stand up. English turf a bit different, doesn't pop as viciously in the main.

 

[paulted]

I'm English and get a bit fed up of beatification of The Don but you cant escape the fact that his record is amazing.There's not a sportsman so far ahead of anyone else in their particular sport. If I'm picking a team, its Bradman and Sobers without question, then 9 others.

 

[Red]

This statement is like "Raina didn't grow up playing good pace bowlers on helpful pitches, so he is bad at it."

No it isn't.