da pinup bet： Roland Perry on Saturday asserted that his chronicle of the Dream Teamwas an authentic version of Sir Donald Bradman while seeking to put atrest doubts raised by former India captain Sunil Gavaskar
da betsul： 19-Aug-2001Roland Perry on Saturday asserted that his chronicle of the Dream Teamwas an authentic version of Sir Donald Bradman while seeking to put atrest doubts raised by former India captain Sunil Gavaskar.”I can vouch for its authenticity. The Bradman Museum Director and SirDonald’s son, John Bradman, have also fully supported the book. Thisshould lay the controversy to rest,” Perry told PTI in Sydney.In a recently published book ‘Bradman’s Best’, Perry has chronicled 12all-time great players who he claimed had been selected by Bradman forhis ‘Dream Team’. Sachin Tendulkar is the only current cricketer inthe team while two other Indians, Kapil Dev and Sunil Gavaskar, whowere in the initial short-list of 69 players, failed to make it to thefinal team.Gavaskar had questioned Perry’s claim saying Bradman would not haveliked to get into such a controversy.Perry differed with Gavaskar on the latter’s opinion that Bradmanwould never criticise a player. “It is not true. There are manyinstances of constructive criticism of players and analysis ofcricketers in his autobiography ‘Farewell to Cricket’ published in1950,” he said.On Gavaskar’s own credentials in the eyes of Bradman, Perry said, “SirDonald regarded Gavaskar’s batting style as technically perfect inevery way. He bracketed him with Sir Leonard Hutton, the openingbatsman and captain of England.”The choice of the (Dream) team is from his (Bradman’s) own mould andhe thought that Gavaskar’s chief fault was a lack of aggression,”Perry said.
