"Play the game for the game sake, and keep your eye on the ball.”
Bradman’s famous quote in response to a sporting journalist’s question on his secret for batting success. Bradman is a sporting enigma. No one in the history of any sport has been almost double the mean. That is, in the history of cricket most elite batsmen averaged in the ’50s (except for Steve Smith currently averaging 63), whist our Don Bradman averaged 99.94.
That is like someone running a five second 100 metres or someone winning 36 majors in Golf. Simply astonishing!
Forty seven years ago almost to the day, a good mate of mine Kerry Penfold from Oak Flats High school lost his eye when he fell on a knife aged three. When the doctors told his parents he was going to struggle in the future to play ball sports, they ignored the medical advice and enrolled him in cricket anyway.
