Talk:Don Bradman

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The section on Test match performance uses {{cr|British India}} but from my reading of his career stats all his tests v India were after August 1947 so the section should use {{cr|Dominion of India}}; however this generates an error. Can anyone more familiar with {{cr}} fix this. Nthep (talk) 12:21, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Opposition to Apartheid?

To quote the article: "The major controversy of his second stint was a proposed tour of Australia by South Africa in 1971–72. On Bradman's recommendation, the series was cancelled."

That's seriously underselling what happened. Bradman not only cancelled the tour, he declared that the Australian team would never play against South Africa until they abolished apartheid. He even met with John Vorster, the then-president of South Africa. Moreover, that was the first major instance of a Western sporting organization declaring its opposition to apartheid. It deserves a lot more than a single line, and in the "controversies" section at that! 183.83.156.113 (talk) 07:37, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 August 2019

Please change "widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time"(part of line number 2) to "widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsman of all time". Reasons:- 1. Biased lines are unexpected in wikipedia article. 2. During Sir Don Bradman's era, the only prominent teams were Australia and England. Few other teams like South Africa, West Indies and India were on its developing stage. 3. The game of cricket and its rules has developed distinctly during period of time. 4. Sir Don Bradman only played Test format of cricket. Whereas modern cricket compose of 3 different formats (ODI, Test, T20). 5. John Woodcock (prominent English Journalist) once stated,"Gentleman, He(Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar) is the best batsman I have seen in my life. And unlike most of you, I have seen Bradman."(Collected from trusted sources). So this proves that Bradman has competitors for greatness. Source 1-> https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/sport/story/20040112-cricket-maestro-sachin-tendulkar-out-of-form-in-tests-matches-790777-2004-01-12 Source 2-> https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/only-sachin-tendulkar-can-equal-don-bradman-mmn9bp7djmn

There are few other sources regarding Brian Lara, Vivian Richards as the greats.

6. Stating "the greatest batsman of all time" indicates the best among the greats of different era.Then the question lies, what is the measure of greatness ? It is unfair to compare different eras. MayukhC99 (talk) 15:01, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

 Not done: There has been a ton of discussions about this sentance and the longstanding consnsus is to keep the current version. Please see the talk page archives and peer review and start another discussion if you still want to change it. --Trialpears (talk) 17:08, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

Name change?

Is it just me or does anyone else think that this article should be renamed to 'Donald Bradman'? Yours truly, 203.221.56.24 (talk) 08:33, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

It used to be at Donald Bradman. It was moved in 2015 as a result of this discussion: Talk:Don Bradman/Archive 6#Requested move 29 May 2015.

If, after reading and considering that discussion, you still think that there are strong reasons to move it back, and that a new discussion might conclude differently to the previous one, you could follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Requested moves#Requesting a single page move to start a new discussion here. -- Begoon 09:33, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

Adding Steve Smith to averages table.

Australia's Steve Smith needs to be added to the table of batting averages as he currently has an average of 64.56 and meets all the other criteria for inclusion.