tell me the achievement and career of sir donald bradman?
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Sir Donald Bradman is an Australian sporting hero.\n\nHis achievements on the cricket field from 1928 to 1948 are still among the world's best.\n\nHe's the only Australian ever knighted for services to the game of cricket.\n\n"I am quite certain he was the best cricketer ever to walk onto a cricket ground in any part of the whole wide world." (Bill O'Reilly - former Test Cricketer)\n\nThe boy who became a cricket legend was born in 1908. His family lived in the country, not far from Sydney.\n\nDon Bradman was a small boy who was very quick on his feet.\n\nHis school didn't have much sport, so Don invented games to amuse himself.\n\nOne of his favourites was to hit a golf ball against a tank stand with a cricket stump.\n\n"At the time it had no meaning. I was just enjoying myself. It never entered my head that I was training my eyesight and movements."\n\n\nDon left school when he was fourteen and didn't start playing cricket seriously until he was sixteen.\n\nIn one of his first matches he scored a massive three hundred.\n\nIt wasn't long before the New South Wales cricket selectors wanted Don in their team.\n\n"When he came down we all saw his superb confidence. The selectors were impressed and sent him to Adelaide and Melbourne. He scored a century at Adelaide." (Bert Oldfield, Aust. Wicket Keeper, 1920-37)\n\nIn 1928, he was selected to play for Australia against England. He had just turned twenty.\n\nDon scored a century in the Third Test, but Australia lost the series.\n\nHe was soon hailed as a run scoring machine. Playing in a state match Don made 452 in world record time.\n\n"It's the speed with which you score runs, that is a very important factor. The world record score that I made, that 452, was made in a little over 400 minutes."\n\nHis outstanding batting guaranteed Don a place on the 1930 Australian team to tour England. It took them six weeks to sail there.\n\n"It was a tremendous adventure of course, and I enjoyed it, but I'm the worst sailor ever born. I got seasick before I even got on the boat."\n\nThe tour was a success all round. Don batted superbly, scoring 974 runs for the Test series.\n\n"I'm going to go out and get as many runs as I can and if in getting those runs I break a record, well, I'll be pleased, but I don't set out to deliberately break records."\n\nThe Australian cricketers came home superstars, Don Bradman the biggest. Experts were trying to figure out what made him so good.\n\n"He's the most phenomenal run machine the world has ever seen."\nAt twenty-four Don married Jessie Menzies, a girl from his home town.\n\nHe was starting to think about his future, and decided to learn about business. It proved very useful later in life.\n\nIn 1932, England toured Australia.\n\nDesperate to stop Don scoring so easily, they came up with the nastiest tactic cricket had seen.\n\nCalled 'Bodyline', the English bowlers aimed for the batsman's body.\n\n"If I had stood exactly where I was, that ball would have hit me in the chest."\n\nBodyline kept Don Bradman's batting average down, and England won the series.\n\nIn 1936 Don was made Australian Captain.\n\n"I was a most inexperienced Captain, and it wasn't an easy job."\n\nWorld War Two interrupted a brilliant cricket career.\n\nWhen it was over, Don was soon back in England. It was here that Don Bradman played his last test innings, he was out second ball. Don retired with a test cricket average of 99.94.\n\nAfter being knighted in 1949, Sir Donald Bradman wanted a very private life. He'll be long remembered for his sporting skill, gentle manner and good humour.\n\nSir Donald Bradman died of pneumonia at his home in Adelaide on 25 February 2001.\n\n--------------------------\nFull name Donald George Bradman\nBorn August 27, 1908, Cootamundra, New South Wales\nDied February 25, 2001, Kensington Pa
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Mahender Singh Dhoni.\n\nHe is an outstanding batsman. You know his batting average is 55. Which is very good for an young batsmen. He also scored 1000 runs in ODI. After scoring 1000 runs, he is keeping up his batting average. There is his callibre. Also he has a great future. he can overtake the records of Sachin tendulkar. After enormous effect of his wicket keeping, he can bat very very well. That shows his callibre in cricket. So i think he is the No 1 Batsmen.
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According to me Gary Sobers is better than Don Bradman.\nDuring the period when Gary Sobers played bowling standards were much higher compared to the time of Bradman.And unlike Bradman,Sobers too contributed with the ball.
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Shahid Afridi\nn Sir Vivian Richards
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Sachin Tendulkar.. 16 yrs of int. crickets.. with lots n lots of records in his name.. n still going very strong! \n JAI TENDULKAR
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Sachin Tendulkar(indian) - the undisputed leader!
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Sir Donald Bradman of Australia was, beyond any argument, the greatest batsman who ever lived and the greatest cricketer of the 20th century. Only WG Grace, in the formative years of the game, even remotely matched his status as a player. And The Don lived on into the 21st century, more than half-a-century after he retired. In that time, his reputation not merely as a player but as an administrator, selector, sage and cricketing statesman only increased. His contribution transcended sport; his exploits changed Australia's relationship to what used to be called the "mother country". Throughout the 1930s and '40s Bradman was the world's master cricketer, so far ahead of everyone else that comparisons became pointless. In 1930, he scored 974 runs in the series, 309 of them in one amazing day at Headingley, and in seven Test series against England he remained a figure of utter dominance; Australia lost the Ashes only once, in 1932-33, when England were so spooked by Bradman that they devised a system of bowling, Bodyline, that history has damned as brutal and unfair, simply to thwart him. He still averaged 56 in the series. In all, he went to the crease 80 times in Tests, and scored 29 centuries. He needed just four in his last Test innings, at The Oval in 1948, to ensure an average of 100 ­- but was out second ball for 0, a rare moment of human failing that only added to his everlasting appeal. Bradman made all those runs at high speed in a manner that bewildered opponents and entranced spectators. Though his batting was not classically beautiful, it was always awesome. As Neville Cardus put it, he was a devastating rarity: "A genius with an eye for business."
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The Dhoni era is definitely not coming to a close. All players go through temporary losses of form, even the best ones. He's still relatively new to international cricket, and I'm sure he'll get even better as he gets more experienced in playing different teams in different conditions. His style in unorthodox (like Afridi and Pietersen) but he is clearly a very talented player.
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it was brian chales lara who scored 400 runs against england in 2004! then it was matthew hatden of austalia who scored 380 in a test match! then in 1994 brian lara scored 375 runs. the highest amount of runs scored at domestic level is 501 again by brian lara whilst he was under the captaincy of dermot reeve - warwickshire county cricket club the team i support!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hope i can help!
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SUNIL GAVASKAR..\nTHE FIRST BATSMAN WHO CROSSED 10K TEST RUNS.\nTHE FIRST SAVIOUR TO THE NATION WHICH WAS REPEATEDLY DEFEATED.\nMASTER AND ROLE MODEL TO TEACH THE COVER DRIVE CAN BE HOW FAR HANDSOME.\nLITTLE MASTER WAS THE BEST.
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In single innings\n---------------------\n400*  Brian C Lara  West Indies v England at St John's, 4th Test, 2003/04 \n\n\nIn Complete career\n---------------------\nBrian C Lara - 121  Matches 11204 Runs
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Sir.Don Bradman scored 29 test centuries and he belongs to Australia.
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Everyone should agree it is Donald Bradman..\nAs he approved, next is Sachin Tendulkar..
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Wouldn't be surprised if Mahendra Singh Dhoni breaks the record in the forthcoming West Indies tour.\n\nHe almost did it against Sri Lanka ( http://usa.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/2005-06/SL_IN_IND/SCORECARDS/SL_IND_ODI3_31OCT2005.html ) but sadly, there weren't enough runs on the board.
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I'm an old timer who got interested in Sri Lank forty years ago. I was fascinated by the Kandy Empire, the legend of Adam's peak, the singing shellfish at Lake Batticaloa, the construction of the ancient tanks among many other things. I read a book that I still find interesting called "Jungle Tide". I forget the author's name but he must have written it during the British occupation as he was English. I am sure there are many other fascinating archaeological and educational opportunities in your country, which, I regret, I never did visit. Still, after 40 years, my interest has been retained by what I read. My very best wishes with your project.
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DON WAS THE BATSMAN OF YESTER CENTURY.\n\nYOU CANT FIX A BATSMAN FOR CURRENT CENTURY.\n\nCOZ, WE HAVE 94 MORE YEARS TO GO.\n\nITS TOO EARLY TO DECIDE.
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By way of flair & fireworks : Brian Lara\nas for having the best technique and consistency: Sachin Tendulkar     And this is something that counts!!\n\nI know many will disagree with me on the sachin point but look at that man's career records & the immense pressure from 1 billion cricket crazy country men, the way he carries himself on the field; his dignity.\n    One would say that dignity has nothing to do with performance but Tendulkar, had the world at his feet for 15 long years & now his body is showing the signs  wear & tear due to 15 years of non stop cricket. He has maintained his dignity in a country that makes it's heroes only to topple them. And in this world Tendulkar has stood tall- Be it with his dignity or his 35 test centuries or 40 something ODI centuries or his 25k international runs or ANYTHING.\n                   He is by far the best batsman in world cricket now. If there's any need for proof of his greatness - recall India vs Pakistan at the World Cup'03!!!!!!