Young Bradman

16 Bowral us were hit several times’). Either Bradman forgot – and he was talking to Waugh nearly 70 years later – or he no more wanted to admit to failings than the rest of us. Bradman was not supernatural. When batting for New South Wales against South Australia in January 1930, a throw from the fielder Clarrie Grimmett at cover ‘struck him between the left ear and the temple, and he dropped like a log’. He retired ‘dazed’, only to return when his team was faltering at 163 for five, to make a ‘shaky’ 47. The Sydney Morning Herald praised Bradman as ‘ever a loyal team man’; a story for those who would mark down Bradman as a selfish record-seeker. If Bradman only wanted records, he need never have left Bowral.