New feature - Cardus on Bradman, 1950

[chasingthedon]

In 1950 Neville Cardus reviewed Don Bradman's autobiography Farewell to Cricket. This review appeared in World Sports magazine's August 1950 edition.

Cardus on Bradman, 1950 | Cricket Web

 

[fredfertang]

Jardine reviewed Farewell to Cricket as well - sadly I've never managed to get hold of a copy of the review but one line from it is

'A good deal of its interest lies in what the writer might have said and did not say, but it gives a picture of a rather lonely traveller'

Oh, and a trivia question - who is the only batsman to have a Test average of 127.00 when facing Bodyline bowling?

 

[Victor Ian]

What was slow leg theory? Google insists that I am searching about body line.

 

[MagicPoopShovel]

Jardine reviewed Farewell to Cricket as well - sadly I've never managed to get hold of a copy of the review but one line from it is

'A good deal of its interest lies in what the writer might have said and did not say, but it gives a picture of a rather lonely traveller'

Oh, and a trivia question - who is the only batsman to have a Test average of 127.00 when facing Bodyline bowling?

Hmm this seems like a trick question. Guessing it wasn't in the actual "Bodyline" series.

Without really checking anything was it actually Jardine, when maybe the WI bowled it at Eng?

 

[Starfighter]

What was slow leg theory?

Bowling spin or medium pace outside leg stump to a leg side field. It became very popular from around the mid twenties up to the late fifties when leg side field restrictions were introduced. Armstrong was one of the earlier ones to use it in tests, I think he even used it before the Great War. Just aim between leg stump and about a foot outside leg (or even further) and let the batsmen bore themselves out.

 

[the big bambino]

Jardine reviewed Farewell to Cricket as well - sadly I've never managed to get hold of a copy of the review but one line from it is

'A good deal of its interest lies in what the writer might have said and did not say, but it gives a picture of a rather lonely traveller'

I wonder if there was an element of self recognition there. Lost soul mates the both of them.

 

[chasingthedon]

Jardine reviewed Farewell to Cricket as well - sadly I've never managed to get hold of a copy of the review but one line from it is

'A good deal of its interest lies in what the writer might have said and did not say, but it gives a picture of a rather lonely traveller'

Oh, and a trivia question - who is the only batsman to have a Test average of 127.00 when facing Bodyline bowling?

Jardine against West Indies

 

[stephen]

Jardine reviewed Farewell to Cricket as well - sadly I've never managed to get hold of a copy of the review but one line from it is

'A good deal of its interest lies in what the writer might have said and did not say, but it gives a picture of a rather lonely traveller'

Oh, and a trivia question - who is the only batsman to have a Test average of 127.00 when facing Bodyline bowling?

Was it McCabe or Jardine?

 

[the big bambino]

Its Jardine against WI at Manchester (I think).

McCabe averaged 42.

 

[fredfertang]

I wonder if there was an element of self recognition there. Lost soul mates the both of them.

This is why I'd like to get hold of a copy of the whole review as I suspect you're right. Bradman actually wrote Farewell to Cricket rather than it being ghosted, and similarly Jardine wrote his two books on the 32/33 and 34 Ashes series himself and there are definite similarities in the way they write