Sir Donald Bradman’s Letter to David Schokman in Perth on 24 July 1984 reveals a startling ‘body of batsmenship’ at the local level …… Quite extraordinary!
THIS NOTE also displays other remarkable truths…… (A) David Schokman’s extraordinary reach in cricketing lore and (B) Don Bradman’s extraordinary attention to detial and his practice of responding to the heaps ofmail that must surely have landed in his mail-box.
Sir Donald Bradman retired from cricket when residing in Adelaide and eventually passed away in the city. I can vouch for his methodical response to all mail. As an office bearer in the organisation known as Adelaide Friends of Sri Lanka Cricket, I did approach invite him at one point in the late 1990s to grace one of the functions linked to the visit of the Lankan cricket team. He replied immediately in polite refusal.
