Don Bradman
Sir Donald George Bradman, AC, was an Australian international cricketer. He is widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time. Bradman’s career Test batting average of 99. 94 has been cited as the great achievement by any sportsman in any major sport.
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Sir Donald George Bradman, AC, was an Australian international cricketer. He is widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time. Bradman’s career Test batting average of 99. 94 has been cited as the great achievement by any sportsman in any major sport. The story that the young Bradman practised alone with a cricket stump and a golf ball is part of Australian folklore. His meteoric rise from bush cricket to the Australian Test team took just over two years. Before his 22nd birthday, he had set many records for top scoring, some of which still stand. He became Australia’s sporting idol at the height of the Great Depression. A complex, highly driven man, not given to close personal relationships, Bradman retained a pre-eminent position in the game by acting as an administrator, selector and writer for three decades following his retirement. Even after he became reclusive in his declining years, his opinion was highly sought, and his status as a national icon was still recognised. On the centenary of his birth, 27 August 2008, the Royal Australian Mint issued a USD 5 commemorative gold coin with Bradman’s image. In 2009, he was inducted posthumously into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. He was born on 27 August 1908 at Cootamundra, New South Wales. He had a brother, Victor, and three sisters—Islet, Lilian and Elizabeth May. He hit his century at the age of 12 playing for Bowral Public School against Mittagong High School.
During the 1920–21 season, he acted as scorer for the local Bowral team, scoring 37* and 29* on debut, scoring one man short on debut. On that day, he formed an ambition to captain his father, George Whatman, on the fifth Ashes Test match. He captained an Australian team known as ‘The Invincibles’ on a record-breaking unbeaten tour of England. His great-grandfathers were one of the first Italians to migrate to Australia in 1826. His grandfather Charles Andrew Bradman left Withersfield, Suffolk, for Australia. When Bradman was about two-and-a-half years old, his parents decided to relocate to Bowral to be closer to Emily’s family and friends, as life at Yeo Yeo was proving difficult. His mother, Emily, gave birth to him at the home of Granny Scholz, a midwife, that house is now the Bradman Birthplace Museum. He took the opportunity to trace his forebears in the region. When he was 21, he played at Cambridge in 1930 as a 21-year-old on his first tour ofEngland. In more formal cricket, he became the first Australian to win a Test match against England. He also captained his father’s side on the Sydney Cricket Ground to watch the fourth Ashes Test. He told his father: ‘I shall never be satisfied this day until I play on this ground’
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