Donald Bradman

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Donald Bradman
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Player information
Surname Sir Donald George Bradman
Born August 27, 1908
Cootamundra, New South Wales , Australia
Died February 25, 2001 at age 92,
Adelaide , Australia
Nickname The Don, The Boy from Bowral, Braddles
height 1.70 m
Batting style Right handed
Bowling style Right-handed leg break
Player role Batsman
International games
National team Australia Australia
Test debut (cap 124) 30th November 1928 v  EnglandEngland
Last test 18th August 1948 v  EnglandEngland
National teams
Years team
1927-1934 New South Wales
1935-1949 South Australia
Career statistics
Game form test FC
Games 52 234
Runs (total) 6,996 28,067
Batting average 99.94 95.14
100s / 50s 29/13 117/69
Highscore 334 452 *
Balls 160 2.114
Wickets 2 36
Bowling Average 36.00 37.97
5 wickets in innings 0 0
10 wickets in play 0 0
Best bowling performance 1/8 3/35
Catches / stumpings 32/0 131/1
Source: Cricinfo , April 12, 2015

Sir Donald "Don" George Bradman , AC (born August 27, 1908 in Cootamundra, New South Wales , † February 25, 2001 in Adelaide ) was an Australian cricketer and statistically the best batsman of all time. To this day he is one of the most popular Australian athletes ever.

Life

Athletic career

Bradman played test cricket between 1928 and 1948 , with an eight-year hiatus due to World War II. His participation in Bodyline as part of the Ashes 1932–33 is particularly significant .

Bradman in 1937 before a game against England at Melbourne Cricket Ground

During his playing days, Bradman apparently dominated the game of cricket at will. In his 52 test matches and 80 innings for the Australian team , he scored 29 Centuries and 13 Half Centuries. He held many world records (highest number of runs per innings, 334) and his average number of runs ("batting average"), the average number of runs per elimination, has not even come close to being reached by any player to this day. In his final innings, it only took Bradman four runs to end his career with a three-digit average. Instead, he didn't score a single run, so it stayed at an average of 99.94.

After the sport

After retiring from his sporting career, Bradman became a successful stockbroker and corporate manager. In addition, he continued to engage in Australian cricket. As the de facto chairman of the Australian Cricket Board , he is seen by some as at least partly responsible for the temporary division of cricket in the context of the World Series Cricket .

Awards

After he was Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1931 , he was elected to the list of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Century in 2000 with 100 out of 100 possible votes , that is, to the list of the five best cricketers of the 20th century.

In 1949 he was the first and so far only Australian cricketer to be raised to the nobility as a Knight Bachelor .

The main inner belt asteroid (2472) Bradman was named after him.

Meaning of bradmans

Bradman's sporting achievements at the time of the Great Depression caused media coverage that led to his status as an Australian national hero and figure of identification. Bradman's importance goes far beyond the recognition of his top athletic performance. To date, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's mailboxes are numbered 9994 in recognition of its average.

Trivia

Donald Bradman owned the most expensive cricket bat in the world. This, called "The Don", was used in Bradman's test debut in 1928 and was auctioned on September 24, 2008 for the equivalent of 108,000 euros at the Leski Auctions auction house in Melbourne , Australia .

The Austrian airline Lauda Air named a Boeing 777 after Bradman. It flew from 2002 until it was taken over by Austrian Airlines in 2007 under this name, including on the Vienna-Sydney route.

Donald Bradman was a member of the Freemasons Association .

Literature and Sources

Web links

Commons : Donald Bradman  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Publications

  • The Art of Cricket , Hodder & Stoughton 1958, ISBN 1-875892-54-0 (new edition 1998) (English)
  • Farewell to Cricket , Bolinda Publishing 1950, ISBN 1-86340-672-7 (new edition 1998) (English)
  • Charles Williams, Bradman: An Australian Hero , Abacus 2001, ISBN 0-349-11475-7 (English)
  • Brett Hutchins, Don Bradman: Challenging the Myth , Cambridge University Press 2003, ISBN 0-521-82384-6 (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Players with an average of over 30 can compete internationally as batsmen, an average of 50 is exceptional and the second-best career average after Bradman's is 60.97.
  2. ^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp.  186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on August 14, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1973 DG. Discovered 1973 Feb. 27 by L. Kohoutek at Bergedorf. "
  3. ↑ The secret we should all be let in on ; Newspaper article by Gerard Henderson; published in The Age ; published on September 3, 2002. Homepage: The Age (accessed on February 23, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Bradman, Donald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bradman, Sir Donald George (full name); The Don (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian cricketer
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Cootamundra, New South Wales
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 2001
Place of death Adelaide