Bradman at Brockton Oval in Vancouver in 1932 during Australian North American Tour

VISIT https://fotoeins.com/2020/08/31/my-vancouver-summercricket-stanleypark/

“The Brockton Oval in Vancouver hosts an over-40s league game. Did you know that Don Bradman once described the ground as “without question the most beautiful ground in the world”?” …. https://twitter.com/espncricinfo/status/1034432962530488321

and, as it happens, one of the Curators at this ground at one point in the ltter half of the 20th century was a Sri Lankan migrant and cricket buff named CJ Van Twest (whose Ceylon news cutting in 1957 have been recently featured in this site: https://thuppahis.com/2023/09/22/cjs-cricket-news-cuttings-in-1957-ceylon-the-cricket-world/

 

 

The location in Vancouver …. AND …. some pictures of cricket in progress there during the Canadian summer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 A picture of Bradman in North America 

 

For FURTHER DATA, visit these sites among many possibilities

 

https://cricketique.live/2012/12/26/don-bradmans-north-american-tour-opens-up-on-film/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7802445-the-don-meets-the-babe

 …. AND …..

https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/362387v ….  “The Don meets the babe : the 1932 Australian cricket tour of North America / Ric Sessions ; with a foreword by Sir Donald Bradman”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEE ... https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/when-the-don-met-the-babe-310792

 

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