I think Don Bradman may have had a tear or two in his eye as he looked down upon the Bowral Cricket ground named after him.
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There were just under 200 children aged between seven and 11 and 125 volunteers having fun playing cricket.
Like Sir Don, the majority of volunteers had a tear in their eye. So too, the mums and dads.
This was all so special. Dream Day, a day when boys and girls with a disability were so shown how.
How to bowl, how to bat, how to throw, how to catch and how to "have a go".
Youngsters with physical disabilities, hearing disabilities, visual disabilities and behavioural disabilities.
Each being cared for by people with a heart.
Able-bodied volunteers, many of them students from Oxley and Chevalier Colleges, and Moss Vale and Bowral High Schools.
Dream Day is an annual event dating back to 2010.
Three Rotary clubs, Bowral-Mittagong, Berrima and Moss Vale chipped in $850 each to create the organisation in conjunction with the Disorder Foundation.
This time the Kollege of Knowledge Kommittee for Kids (KKKK) and the Commonwealth Bank picked up the tab.
The goal was for the boys and girls to be shown how on Bradman Oval.
"Well, if the kids didn't realise the thrill of playing on Bradman, the parents certainly did," Dream Day secretary Jim McAlpine said.
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Bradman Foundation CEO Rina Hore supported the day to the hilt. The reason it runs like clockwork.
There are six work stations, each dealing with a component of the game.
The day begins at 9.30am.
There is a break for morning tea and the boys and girls move to other stations before a lunch break. They spend 15 minutes at each work station.
Enrolments come from as far as Nowra, Wollongong, Goulburn and each of the inner Southern Highlands towns.
Success breeds success and that's why Tennis Australia had a representative, Kerry Tayrou attend with the view of replicating Dream Day.
Anyone for tennis?
As a sports writer for too many years to recall you get the opportunity to see and hear "feel good" stories.
Sir Don, another 100. Sniffs not runs.
