Advent 24

In academic circes one is (quite properly) told never to quote Wikipedia. But these are not academic circles and on this occasion Wikipedia gets it spot on:

Bradman's Test atting average of 99.94 is often cited as the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport.

 Obviously I never saw Bradman play but the sheer weight of the statistical evidence is there for all to view. He scored twenty-nine centuries in just fifty-two Test matches. His first class career average was ninety-five. A very select club of the greats have a Test average in the sixties - Bradman is fully fifty percent better than all his challengers. I have been fortunate to see some great batsmen - Tendulkar, Lara, Steve Waugh, Viv Richards - but the figures cannot lie: Don Bradman was by a ludicrous margin the supreme batsman of all time.

 Happy Christmas and may your god go with you.