Sir Donald Bradman Oration: Three formats cannot be played in equal numbers.

Uploaded by: Daedalus on 14/12/2011

Synopsis: Rahul Dravid: The people of both our countries are often told that cricket is the one thing that brings Indians and Australians together. That cricket is our single common denominator. India's first Test series as a free country was played against Australia in November 1947, three months after our independence. Yet the histories of our countries are linked together far more deeply than we think and further back in time than 1947. We share something else other than cricket. Before they played the first Test match against each other, Indians and Australians fought wars together, on the same side. In Gallipoli, where, along with the thousands of Australians, over 1300 Indians also lost their lives. In World War II, there were Indian and Australian soldiers in El Alamein, North Africa, in the Syria-Lebanon campaign, in Burma, in the battle for Singapore. Before we were competitors, Indians and Australians were comrades. So it is only appropriate that we are here this evening at the Australian War Memorial, where along with celebrating cricket and cricketers, we remember the unknown soldiers of both nations

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• Rahul Dravid
• Cricket
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