Failing the Bradman challenge
Every cricket fan is of course aware that Don Bradman used to practice by tapping a golf ball against a wall using a stump.
So Dr Mumbo is grateful to sponsor Vodafone for demonstrating that there’s little danger of VB being asked to come good on today’s promise to give away free beer if Australia wins the Ashes.
Luckily I don’t like VB anyway….
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A corrugated iron water tank. Every cricket fan knows that Don Bradman used to practice by tapping a golf ball against a corrugated iron water tank using a stump.
And he did it uphill, blindfolded, in the snow, in the middle of the sweltering Victorian summer sun, wearing only matchboxes for shoes.
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The internets have let me down! I swear I’m not hallucinating, but back in the 90s Martin/Molloy played a truly fabulous song, in 1930’s style, about old Bradders that was far from complementary.
The lyrics went something like: “The Don wasn’t a saint/Never flew a war plane… He was just rather good/At hitting a ball/With a bit of wood”.
Can anyone confirm or deny? I’m not referring to the namecheck in the Chaser’s Eulogy Song either.
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Get it right – Sir Donald Bradman was brought up in Bowral in NSW not Victoria and what he said he used to do was throw a golf ball at his water tank and play the ball as it came off at whatever angle the corrugated iron delivered.
Thus learning how to get into position quickly and play the ball with a stump.
Ignorance is bliss to the idiots who misreport everything in this online “age of idiots” ….
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Tim,. I think that’s why they called it “Victoria Bitter” – they’ve never forgiven NSW.
And yep, Bowral from aged two-and-a-half but was born in Coota-bloody-mundra.
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For the record. This is a great promotional idea and will go nuts. Well done – great work for a struggling brand.
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The Australian team will need some practice this summer.
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Questionable strategy.
We’re not going to win the bloody ashes. Given that, what’s the point of all of this then?
Maybe a decade ago, but now?
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Didn’t this sort of strategy but based on the the Olympics get Krusty Burgers into all sorts of trouble a while back?
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