26/10/2022
Amazing story
HOWZAT!?
The tradies working on this Pimlico home in the mid 1930's were obviously listening to the cricket in the radio.
When the flood-damaged interior walls were stripped away recently, a makeshift scorebook written in chalk was revealed.
The tradies noted Sir Donald Bradman's score of 244 (from just 271 balls), while Bill Ponsford amassed 266 before hitting his wicket (a cruel way to get out after 422 balls).
Official records show Australia made 701 in its first innings of the fifth test in 1934, and eventually defeated England by a whopping 562 runs.
Image supplied: Magpie Mick.
