Another side to Bradman by Ian Chappell

Another side to Bradman by Ian Chappell

[@markbailey1970]

Bill O’Reilly always said that Bradman was the greatest cricketer who ever drew breath. He also hated his guts. I think that’s a fair assessment.

[@philrobinson981]

I don't know how old this interview is, Chappell said at the time Keith Miller was the best All-Rounder to play for the Baggy Green's to this day he probably still is the best Australian AR ever

[@06588275]

good to c someone being honest about bradman instead of nursing up to him because of his status

[@TheCleaner76]

Never meet your hero

[@patpearce8221]

Bill O Reilly was a legend of leg spin. Rivals with Bradman from a young age. Really interesting how he finished.

[@ArchismanMozumder]

I'm not too sure of this assertion. Hughes needed to be given more time with 10 other loyal players (not mutinous deterrents like Lillie & Marsh) before a call could be taken.
Huge respect for Border for his grit & skills but Captaincy is not just these aspects. In that case, Mark Taylor should have faltered in leadership after Border.
It matters when a captain's key players are committed. McGrath was also as petulant as Lillie but he *never* was derisive about Taylor as Lillie & Marsh were, about Hughes.

[@rajivradha]

Can’t wait for his interview on Botham.

[@gussyt1761]

You think just because everyone played Australian cricket together doesn’t mean they were all this big happy family, everyone’s each of their own and don’t have to like each other

[@fredfish4316]

Bradman was, of course, Honest John (alias the rodent) Howard's hero.

[@natlmm1]

Bradman he was a loner and didn't want or need friends but from all accounts he wasn't a great guy either and wasn't particularly liked by anyone, my grandparents are from Adelaide (same generation as Bradman) and my grandfather knew him a little bit and even had Bradman over to his house for lunch once, but told me that most people he met anytime they heard the name Bradman it would usually be followed by a pretend spit on the floor.

[@marknorris1381]

You'd probably have to try and see it from Bradman's perspective. The BS that he would have had to listen to, he probably got sick of it - there would have been idiots telling him what he could do to improve his batting etc. You know what people are like. Personally I don't blame him for being a loner.

[@natlmm1]

@@marknorris1381 Yeah I identify as a bit of a Bradman myself, was Bradman a bit of a prick? yeah he was but when you have to put up with idiots all day? that's the way you turn out and sometimes have to be.

[@brookinghouseof9457]

@@natlmm1
Tell us all about your triple century in a ashes test there bit of a Bradman.

[@davidalexander2607]

Jardine wasn't liked much either ..but he got results..in his eyes and Bradman's that's all what mattered

[@davidalexander2607]

I will say this ..Alf Ramsay wasnt a social animal either ..but he was respected. He made a massive call at the 66 World Cup re Jimmy Greaves . We won it . Enough said

[@kenelmtonkin7722]

Ian Chappell does himself a disservice. Uncharitable. Judge not, lest ye be judged.

[@renatocarini497]

He is paid to give opinions.
Who would tune in if all he offered was banal platitudes?

[@marknorris1381]

Some people have no idea on how they come across when they bag others out. Best kept to themselves.

[@warrick109]

most people arnt the same person in private as they are in public eg Ellen

[@lindsayyoung6393]

There must be a basis for what Ian Chappell said. Simple as that.

[@renatocarini497]

The evidence of Bradman's vindictiveness is everywhere.
The Don could be a real prick when he didn't like you.

[@tenparab]

This is not just Ian Chapels opinion a lot of people disliked Bradman for being an arsehole.

[@theknightwatchman]

It’s true Bradman had his haters but Chappell didn’t have his facts straight. O’Reilly was never on the 1930 tour and Bradman wasn’t captain in 1949. Chappell is just clutching at straws to defame a man who can no longer defend himself and furthering his grandfather’s feud. Pretty low stuff.

[@terrya8989]

Pretty low stuff? Ask the kids on their way to Pembroke School walking past his house and Bradman having a go at them regularly and ringing the school to complain that they were making too much noise at 8.30 in the morning. Bradman never had a close friend in the world besides his wife.@@theknightwatchman

[@knoxywon]

I heard many stories from people in the know that similar things about Bradman… very disappointing!

[@ArchismanMozumder]

So says the man who was the epitome of vindictiveness in hounding Kim Hughes off the captaincy of Australia. And he got his sympathisers, Dennis Lillie & Rod Marsh to behave in a mutinous fashion to undermine Hughes & even impact the team's performance (including betting for an English victory in Headingley - 1981).
That said, he is probably right about his assessment of Bradman. However, the latter has too many good achievements under his belt as a batsman, captain & administrator. There are many instances of a successful regime leaving a few, peeved. Especially if the leader is very assertive.

[@carntspell]

To be fair, all Australian cricket fans breathed a sigh of relief when Hughes stood down. He simply wasn't up to it. We then got Border who brought back gritty leadership.

[@dlamiss]

ffs the bet was a laugh and Hughes at Headingley should have brought Bright on when Botham was twatting Lillee, Alderman and Lawson all over the ground

[@ArchismanMozumder]

@Jeremy Benson: If Mark Taylor had a mutinious-minded McGrath & Healy in his team, we would have all said, 'he spoilt the good work of Border & wasn't up to it.'
Key players need to be fully committed.

[@ArchismanMozumder]

@@dlamiss No bet by an active player, *against* his own team, can be a laugh. It is a sack-able offence. As is insubordination.

[@dlamiss]

@@ArchismanMozumder They didnt profit from the bet

[@sentimentalbloke185]

Chappell has spent 40 years publicly disparaging Bradman & has got more vitriolic since Bradman died. Vic Richardson never got over being replaced as capt of SA by Bradman & Chappell has carried on the family grudge for many years. Greg Chappell has a more nuanced & realistic attitude on the matter.

[@paarthaw8178]

Yeah, and Ian Chappell is no less of a vindictive person himself. The way he has always undermined the achievements of Botham because of their life long feud, or his constant criticism of Steve Waugh. Ian Chappell is a good cricket brain no doubt but he sure has his own personal opinions, so no different to Bradman.
Bradman was a teetotaler and a calm person, whereas some of his teammates loved drinks, so he might have avoided such social gatherings. Anyway, on the cricket field, there was none superior to Bradman and without him Australian team would not have risen to the greatest heights during his time.

[@sentimentalbloke185]

@@paarthaw8178 Botham isn't the greatest bloke either, was fond of pub brawling & there's no doubt he attacked Chappell & threatened him with a glass in a Melbourne pub in 1977. As for Bradman & drinking, he was a teetotaler in his early career but later became fond of red wine & scotch.

[@paarthaw8178]

@@sentimentalbloke185 Yes, I know about that and you are right in that Botham himself was not a saint. But, what I am saying is this: Ian Chappell is guilty of the same accusation he is throwing at Bradman. He has strong personal dislikes just like any bloke but acts as though he is above that. He always disliked Ian Botham, Geoff Boycott and Steve Waugh for various ridiculous reasons and never acknowledged their greatness. Heck, Ian Chappell had such a poor average against South Africa over two tours but has the guts to say that Geoff Boycott was ordinary, at least Boycott never equaled such a dismal average against anyone over a period of 9 test matches on two different tours. He keeps on saying that Boycott batted too slowly to have any positive impact on the game's result but conveniently forgets that snail-paced Boycott's batting was sufficient to knock the Aussies out in 1971 and also enough to win several games/series against various oppositions like the West Indies team led by Garry Sobers, India, Pakistan, New Zealand and so on.
I like some of his Ian Chappell's commentary and some of his cricketing views but I have always felt that he thinks too highly of himself and repeats the stuff over and over and I have got bored of it.
Bradman was too good and successful over his peers and it is natural to have some blokes being jealous of his success and to me ultimately what matters is what you do on the cricket field when judging players. On the cricketing field the achievements of Botham, Boycott and Steve Waugh were superior to Ian Chappell and that is the end of the discussion. Let's not even bring Bradman into the equation.

[@paarthaw8178]

@Sentimental Bloke 1 -- Also, one more thing I forgot to mention is lack of praise/respect for captaincy skills of Mike Brearley and always states the same thing that a poor player like Brearley is a liability and one should not take captaincy skills into equation for such players. Ok, agreed, then what about his grandfather Vic Richardson? He was not a particularly great player himself but captained for Australia in a series but Ian Chappell's never mentions about that.
So, Ian Chappell calling others as vindictive is a joke!

[@sentimentalbloke185]

@@paarthaw8178 Richardson only captained Aus because Bradman skipped the tour; that's an important part of the feud. Brearley wasn't worth his place in a test team & he was a very lucky captain, I don't rate him either. Chappell's problem is that he dresses up personal dislike of an individual with pedantic, pernickety technical criticisms of their cricket, which is a bit weak. And Boycott? Well, for every positive there's a negative & it's astounding to note how many people have forgotten that Boycott stood out of test cricket for 3 years as he didn't like the captain. That gained him no respect among Australian players.

[@juanestadian8471]

That lady actually asked Ian Chappell whether he liked Bradman personally? Isn't the answer obvious

[@siredith8846]

I’m not sure Ian Chappell likes anyone.

[@juanestadian8471]

@@siredith8846 well maybe, he does seem to be devolving into a very crotchety old man. But it must be hard having to adjust from being a fit professional sportsman to an old man seeing himself waste away. Hell, i might be like that if I get to his age. But he has never liked bradman. In fact, the people who have had to deal with The Don on a personal level have very few, if anything good to say about him

[@siredith8846]

@@juanestadian8471 I can’t say. I’ve never met the Don.

[@sentimentalbloke185]

@@juanestadian8471 nonsense, plenty said positive things about him.

[@juanestadian8471]

@@sentimentalbloke185 the only thing chappell says about bradman was that he was a great batsman. Chappell once called bradman the World's greatest Pr***.

[@danielbrowne9089]

Does Ian like anyone?

[@warrenthornton7582]

Bradman was yellow

[@sentimentalbloke185]

No, he was huwhite. lmao

[@theknightwatchman]

Either Ian Chappell or Bill O’Reilly is a liar as O’Reilly wasn’t on the 1930 tour of England, he hadn’t even debuted in Test cricket. Also, Bradman wasn’t even captain in 1949 as he had retired. Ian Chappell is a bitter old man carrying on his grandfather Victor Richardson’s feud with Bradman.

[@mjames4709]

Trust Zemiro setting up a shit interview like this. These types of people hate everything that is held dearly in Australia.

[@dalebarratt4941]

Bullshit. Ian has a bugbear with Bradman that goes back to Bradman replacing Vic Richardson (Ian’s grandfather) as Australian captain. Extrapolate from there.

[@eLankaAustralia]

spot on Dale.....

[@12angryrealists]

What's a more feasible motive, Bradman refusing to give Chapelli's players a pay rise while he was Captain and Bradman was head of the board or some long bow grudge? lol

[@sentimentalbloke185]

@@12angryrealists Chappell got into many spats with Bradman before WSC. Yet Bradman picked him for Australia, made him SA captain & voted for him as Aus capt.

[@12angryrealists]

@@sentimentalbloke185 The pay dispute started many many years before WSC. WSC was the culimination and ended with Bradman losing power and spitting the dummy for the final time.
Who pray tell would he have replaced Chappell with in either side lol. Bradman was widely regarded as a c#$t but he wasn't a moron and definitely wasnt going to risk unmasking his vindictive side to the public.

[@sentimentalbloke185]

@@12angryrealists Chappell's test record for the first few years of his career was poor but Bradman & the selectors kept faith in him & surprisingly made him vice-capt of Australia in 1968. Bradman made him SA capt when Favell retired so he was groomed to one day be captain, much to his own surprise. He clashed repeatedly with Bradman over the SA team, culminating in the strike of '75-6. He then retired but was lured back by Packer.
There was no actual 'dispute' over pay it was more that many long-term test players felt they weren't getting enough. The board actually raised the pay significantly in the 2 years before WSC via sponsorships which was too little too late. But nothing would've happened without Packer & he was smart enough to recognize that the players weren't under contract: that was the board's weakness & allowed Packer to take over. Chappell went along for the ride.

[@DMBAUG1973]

How could O’Reilly have complained about Bradman not putting 50 quid on the bar? This happened on the 1930 ashes tour (Bradman given 1000 pounds) and O’Reilly wasn’t even there as he wasn’t selected for the tour!
More I. Chapell BS - great captain Ian but totally full of rubbish,