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A better than average rating system for assessing great batsmen theroar.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theroar.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A better than average rating system for assessing great batsmen theroar.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theroar.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A better than average rating system for assessing great batsmen A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size I have just finished one of the best cricket books ever, and I’ve read quite a few – not so many in the last 20 years, but an infinite amount in the previous 20 before that. The book is of course The Genius by fellow Roarer Renato Carini. I believe a number of other Roarers are also in the process of reading it and for the few who have never heard of it, it tells the complete story of Victor Trumper, one of the most beloved Australian cricketers up until at least the time I began following the game at the very start of the 1980s, but who arguably disappeared off the radar of most fans who began after my own time. Now he is making a comeback. ....
Australia's greatest: Victor and the Don theroar.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theroar.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Australia s greatest: Victor and the Don A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size “Many a time when Trumper was batting and the team was in a safe position some player in the dressing room would call out ‘Vic’s 95, or 96 … Who’s in next?’” I had a great chuckle when I first came across this remark which sounds like a good old-fashioned yarn and not something to be taken seriously. As a matter of fact I have investigated the claim and discovered that it is not apocryphal. Australian wicketkeeper Hanson Carter made the remark in the vicinity of a young and impressionable Warren Bardsley, who recalled the event 20 years later in his memoirs. ....