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Bradman retired- happy or not

Freddie Brown led a weak team to Australia for the 1950/51 Ashes series.

He was quite a character and it showed when he puffed his pipe throughout an interrogation by forty Australian and English reporters. 

Journalist: " Mr Brown, do you feel you have a good side? "
Brown: " I should be a bloody fool if I didn't think I had a good side."
Journalist: " Won't you be loath to face Miller and Lindwall?"
Brown: " I should not be loath to face anything."
Journalist: " Mr Brown, do you feel any happier now that Bradman retired?"
Brown: " How do you feel?"

 

England lost the series badly but the Australians loved Brown, the leader.