Shattering the Don Bradman Myth

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This article challenges the heroic mythology surrounding the champion Australian cricketer, Sir Donald Bradman. It contends that Bradman was a self-serving and self-obssessed crickter who sought to control the game on and off the field. The article suggests that Bradman not only divided teams in which he played, but as an adminsitrator supported the retention of apartheid South Africa in international cricket and sowed the seeds for the Packer revolution of the mid-1970s.