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Donald Bradman
Sir Donald Bradman of Australia was, beyond any argument, the greatest batsman who ever lived and the greatest cricketer of the 20th century. Only WG Grace, in the formative years of the game, even remotely matched his status as a player. And The Don lived on into the 21st century, more than half a century after he retired. In that time, his reputation not merely as a player but as an administrator, selector, sage and cricketing statesman only increased. His contribution transcended sport; his exploits changed Australia's relationship to what used to be called the "mother country".
Throughout the 1930s and 40s Bradman was the world's master cricketer, so far ahead of everyone else that comparisons became pointless. In 1930, he scored 974 runs in the series, 309 of them in one amazing day at Headingley, and in seven Test series against England he remained a figure of utter dominance; Australia lost the Ashes only once, in 1932-33, when England were so spooked by Bradman that they devised a system of bowling, Bodyline, that history has damned as brutal and unfair, s
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Bradman's Biography
The Bowral wonder
Donald George Bradman was born in Cootamundra on 27 August 1908, the youngest of the five children of George and Emily Bradman of Yeo Yeo, a small farming community near Cootamundra in New South Wales.
Early in 1911, the family moved into a small weatherboard house in Shepherd Street, Bowral, 132 kilometres south of Sydney. George Bradman worked as a carpenter in the local joinery and young Donald's brother Victor and sisters Islet, Lilian and Elizabeth May attended local schools. By the time World War One had erupted, Donald was more occupied with school, choir practice and learning the piano than with international events.
But there was no organised sport for a six-year-old and he had to content himself with watching schoolyard cricket through a gate in a fence that divided the Bowral primary and high schools. At home, he invented his own one-man cricket game using a stump and a golf ball. A water tank stood on a brick stand behind the Bradman home on a covered and paved area. The ball rebounded from the curved brick stand at high
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Don Bradman
Australian cricketer (1908–2001)
"Bradman" redirects here. For other uses, see Bradman (disambiguation) and Don Bradman (disambiguation).
Sir Don Bradman AC | |
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Don Bradman, c. 1930 | |
| Born | (1908-08-27)27 August 1908 Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 25 February 2001(2001-02-25) (aged 92) Kensington Park, South Australia |
| Allegiance | Australia |
| Branch/service | Royal Australian Air Force Australian Army |
| Years of service | 1940–1941 |
| Rank | Lieutenant |
| Unit | Army School of Physical Training |
| Battles/wars | Second World War |
| Full name | Donald George Bradman |
| Nickname | |
| Height | 1.70[1][2] m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Batting | Right-handed |
| Bowling | Right-arm leg break |
| Role | Batsman |
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| National side | |
| Test debut (cap 124) | 30 November 1928 v England |
| Last Test | 18 August 1948 v England |
| Years | Team |
| 1927/28–1933/34 | New South Wales |
| 1935/36–1948/49 | South Australia |