Don Bradman was ‘peculiar’. That is the startling finding of a pair of Monash University academics. Of course, anyone with even the vaguest knowledge of cricket already knew that to have a Test batting average of 99.94 was clearly ‘peculiar’. Yet our Don Bradman’s prodigious feats with the bat are not the reason why Monash duo David Dunstan and Tom Heenan claim he was ‘an extremely peculiar Australian’, but rather because they believe he was an ‘acquisitive, ruthless, and self-interested loner’.
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Richard Allsop is a research fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs.
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