http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Bradman Sir Donald Bradman, the world's greatest ever cricketer and Australia's greatest sportsman. He held a batting average of 99.94 (total runs divided by times out) which is by far and away one of those rare records that will NEVER be broken. The next best batting average, at the end of a career is 60.97, almost 40 runs per innings below Bradman. And his statistics might be the most dominate in any sport in history, consider this, to compare Bradmans average in Cricket consider what a baseballer and basketballer would need to do -
I don't know about the poms. This guy was pretty good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrn8mz7lovc The Don does make a case for greatest sportsman the world has ever seen, without doubt. Shameless plug for my favourite Aussie sportsman right now: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ybw1_movie0003_sport
Racist.) I just don't like cricket. The wiki was a good read though,sounds like he was a great bloke too.