At the season launch for the 1987 Sheffield Shield, the South Australian captain, David Hookes, was seated next to Don Bradman. After the usual preliminaries, the Crow-Eaters’ conditioning coach made a special presentation, outlining his high-tech regime for getting the squad match-fit. Hookes turned to The Don and asked him what he had done for pre-season exercise in the 1930s.
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