Peter Kettle | 7:07am BST 03 October 2025
We not often publish poetry, although PK despatched us this reflection on two of cricket’s biggest icons, WG Grace and DG Bradman. We thought you may get pleasure from one thing totally different.
DB quite than Don Bradman,provides aptitude don’t you suppose?
It differentiates this unconventional, inventive, excessive pace scorer from themass of different excessive profile gamers.
One whom Marylebone Cricket Membership twice supplied its presidency.
“DB” rightly places him onan acknowledgement parwith that equally dominant determine of his personal period , WG –Dr William Gilbert Grace –the best affect onthe fashionable sport’s emergence.
“The Don”- in distinction to “DB”-is restrained and reverential in model.He himself received sick within the head from such deferential therapy.
This new deal with I’m surehe’d heartily approve of – a time period of endearmentinto the discount.
It’d begin a common pattern –have MCC members, in each hemispheres,muttering “DB” between overs,and college youngsters by no means hearinganything else – “Bradman”, who’s he?
Even the pavilion tea woman getting chummy with “DB”. Quickly feels she is aware of him intimately.
And, sure, DB-WG a rhyming couplet! I foresee pictures of the pair side-by-sideon cereal packets and on aeroplane logos:– positively on Prime Ministers socks– maybe even on rainbows
