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Will people be able to believe it or handle it?
I think people around my age will agree Bradman is almost like a legendary hero more than a real cricketer to my generation. We know he's real of course, but if he was a fictional character he would shatter the suspension of disbelief.
Maybe I'm just cynical, but I think the New Bradman would cop heat like no other player has. We already have people trying very hard to discredit the achievements of "normal" all time greats (and Bradman himself) but the immediacy of a modern player averaging 100 would draw in all manner of boring people trying to prove he's secretly mediocre.
What do you think the effect on global sporting culture would be? Bradman was running around in a quieter time, before sportsmen were multi-million dollar stars broadcast on telly 24/7. Bradman was talked about, and if you were lucky enough to live in Australia or England, you could go and watch him but otherwise you were **** out of luck and had to read a book or something. A player dominating to the extent Bradman did would be more in your face than Bradman himself was thanks to modern media.
Would we see the New Bradman coming? I don't know if they saw the old one coming, but someone that good would be so advanced by their mid teens they would probably get a test gig like Sachin did yeah?
Finally, would any team with a New Bradman immediately become the best side in the world?
Personally I suspect the only thing holding a modern Bradman from being the "biggest" sportsman of all time would be the relatively smaller stature of cricket in global sport. Because it's almost non-existent in continental Europe, big parts of Asia and America then maybe he wouldn't be as big as Tiger Woods or Michael Schumacher. Regardless of that though I think he would be huge, but also take a very long time to become accepted as the real deal because so many would be waiting for him to fail even after 5+ years.
I think people around my age will agree Bradman is almost like a legendary hero more than a real cricketer to my generation. We know he's real of course, but if he was a fictional character he would shatter the suspension of disbelief.
Maybe I'm just cynical, but I think the New Bradman would cop heat like no other player has. We already have people trying very hard to discredit the achievements of "normal" all time greats (and Bradman himself) but the immediacy of a modern player averaging 100 would draw in all manner of boring people trying to prove he's secretly mediocre.
What do you think the effect on global sporting culture would be? Bradman was running around in a quieter time, before sportsmen were multi-million dollar stars broadcast on telly 24/7. Bradman was talked about, and if you were lucky enough to live in Australia or England, you could go and watch him but otherwise you were **** out of luck and had to read a book or something. A player dominating to the extent Bradman did would be more in your face than Bradman himself was thanks to modern media.
Would we see the New Bradman coming? I don't know if they saw the old one coming, but someone that good would be so advanced by their mid teens they would probably get a test gig like Sachin did yeah?
Finally, would any team with a New Bradman immediately become the best side in the world?
Personally I suspect the only thing holding a modern Bradman from being the "biggest" sportsman of all time would be the relatively smaller stature of cricket in global sport. Because it's almost non-existent in continental Europe, big parts of Asia and America then maybe he wouldn't be as big as Tiger Woods or Michael Schumacher. Regardless of that though I think he would be huge, but also take a very long time to become accepted as the real deal because so many would be waiting for him to fail even after 5+ years.