Test Cricket will stand out from other cricket books on the market with its strong, irreverent voice. The book concentrates on the stories behind the legends, teams and great matches. Test Cricket explores some of the controversial and legendary moments of the cricket world’s most loved sporting competition. Bringing to life the people who were there.
On Bradman:
If you want to talk to a machine, you use numbers. Batsmen dealt in runs, Bradman dealt in numbers. 52. 6996. 29. 12. 2. 1.78. To us mere mortals, it might be 52 Tests. 6996 runs. 29 hundreds. 12 double hundreds. Two triple hundreds. A hundred every 1.78 Tests. This machine had been developed in Bowral. Streamlined in Sydney. And unleashed on the universe. It was an independent industry. A global franchise. There were days when all it did was tick over numbers. Bradman's skill was having all the skills. He was hungrier than normal people. He was meaner than normal people. He was smarter than normal people. He was quicker than normal people. He was mentally stronger than normal people. He was more patient than normal people. He worked harder than normal people. He wasn't normal. Not really in any way.
On Bill Lawry:
The corpse with pads is what Lawry had been called, and in that series his runs were coming at 13 an hour. You can almost set your watch by that.
