Eerie quiet as another fabulous career ends

By Malcolm Knox
December 4 2012 - 3:00am

WHEN Sir Donald Bradman made a second-ball duck in his last Test innings in 1948, the man who was closest to him, England's wicketkeeper Godfrey Evans, said to himself: ''What is a nought in such a fabulous career, even such a nought at such a time''.

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