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Cricket Hall of Fame in Bradman’s home town |
The International Cricket Hall of Fame will be built in Sir Donald Bradman's home town of Bowral, cementing its appeal as a pilgrimage site for cricket tragics.
Announcing the project yesterday, the Bradman Foundation said it would open in 2010 as an extension of the Bradman Museum, at Bradman Oval in the NSW Southern Highlands town.
While the museum celebrates The Don, the world's greatest batsman, the hall of fame will honour past and present international cricketers. The International Cricket Council's centenary hall of fame list will form its centrepiece — 55 of the game's top players from seven nations, spanning a century of Test cricket.
The foundation says just as Lord's in London is known as the home of the sport's laws and rules, Bowral will become the custodian of cricket's players and their history. Bradman Foundation chairman Michael Ball said it was fitting a museum honouring cricket's elite players had a direct connection to The Don.
"Bradman Oval has always been viewed as the spiritual home of cricket as it is the scene of Don Bradman's early triumphs," he said.
The hall of fame will be a showcase for all forms of cricket, including Twenty20, through interactive displays, allowing visitors to experience such things as umpiring technology and media broadcasting.
The project, financed by a Federal Government grant to recognise the centenary of Bradman's birth in 2008, has received support from international cricketing bodies, past and present players and the tourism sector.
The Bradman Foundation will own and operate the hall of fame.
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