Australia had one of the strongest batting line-ups ever in the early 1930s, with Bradman, Archie Jackson, Stan McCabe, Bill Woodfull and Bill Ponsford.

Aged 38 and having been unwell during the war, Bradman had been reluctant to play.

It was believed that something new was required to combat Bradman, but it was believed more likely that Bradman could be dismissed by leg-spin as Walter Robins and Ian Peebles had supposedly caused him problems ; two leg-spinners were included in the English touring party of 1932 – 33.

However, given that Bradman scored 232, it was not thought that a way to curb his prodigious scoring had been found.

Bradman missed the first Test due to illness, although Jardine refused to believe this and thought the real reason was that the batsman had suffered a nervous breakdown due to his tactical scheme.

He had intended the comments to be private, and ill feeling grew in the Australian camp as speculation about who leaked the incident to the press grew and many of the team privately pointed the finger at Bradman.

( Bradman strenuously denied that he had been responsible to his dying day ; others, including Plum Warner, pointed the finger at Bradman's team-mate and journalist, Jack Fingleton.

However, in his autobiography, Fingleton claimed that Sydney Sun reporter Claude Corbett had received the information from Bradman.

In the process, he passed 1000 Test runs against England and the partnership broke the Ashes partnership record at Lord's, which had been set by Bill Woodfull and Don Bradman in 1930.

Bradman spent a lot of his free time alone, writing, as he had sold the rights to a book.

At this point, Bradman had played 15 Test matches since the beginning of 1930, scoring 2, 227 runs at an average of 131.

Although the standard of play was not high, the effects of the amount of cricket Bradman had played in the three previous years, together with the strains of his celebrity status, began to show on his return home.

Remembering that Bradman had struggled against bouncers during his 232 at The Oval in 1930, Jardine decided to combine traditional leg theory with short-pitched bowling to combat Bradman.

Bradman had other problems to deal with at this time ; among these were bouts of illness from an undiagnosed malaise which had begun during the tour of North America, and that the Australian Board of Control had initially refused permission for him to write a column for the Sydney Sun.

Bradman, who had signed a two-year contract with the newspaper, threatened to withdraw from cricket to honour his contract when the board denied him permission to write ; eventually, the paper released Bradman from the contract, in a victory for the Board.

At one stage, Bradman went 13 first-class innings without a century, the longest such spell of his career, prompting suggestions that Bodyline had eroded his confidence and altered his technique.

After three Tests, the series was one – one and Bradman had scored 133 runs in five innings.

A telephone call clarified the situation and by the time she reached London, Bradman had begun a slow recovery.

In the First Test, England amassed a big first innings score and looked likely to win, but Stan McCabe made 232 for Australia, a performance Bradman rated as the best he had ever seen.

His 400 not out also made him the second player after Donald Bradman to score two Test triple-centuries, and the second after Bill Ponsford to score two first-class quadruple-centuries.

Bodyline, also known as fast leg theory bowling, was a cricketing tactic devised by the English cricket team for their 1932 – 33 Ashes tour of Australia, specifically to combat the extraordinary batting skill of Australia's Don Bradman.

It was also known in England that Bradman was dismissed for a four-ball duck by fast bowler Eddie Gilbert, and looked very uncomfortable.

With the sun drying the pitch ( in those days, covers could not be used during matches ) Bradman declared to get England in to bat while the pitch was " sticky "; England also declared to get Australia back in, conceding a lead of 124.

Bradman inaugurated a " Bradman Stand " at the Sydney Cricket Ground in January 1974 ; the Adelaide Oval also opened a Bradman Stand in 1990.

Bradman also agreed to an extensive interview for ABC radio, broadcast as Bradman: The Don Declares in eight 55-minute episodes during 1988.

Having also scored 206 at Port-of-Spain earlier in the year, he became only the second player ( Sir Donald Bradman the other ) to hit three double-centuries in a calendar year.

Richards was also Crowe's cricketing idol along with Donald Bradman, Garfield Sobers and Greg Chappell.

" Throughout the 1930s, the public and critics regarded Hammond as England's best batsman, succeeding Jack Hobbs, and next to Bradman, the best in the world ( although George Headley also had a claim ).

He felt not only that he had to do well, but also that he had to score more than Bradman.

It was also known in England that Bradman had shown some discomfort during the 1931 – 32 Australian season against pace bowling.

However, the trouble began when Bill Woodfull was struck on the chest by a Larwood delivery, drawing the comment from Jardine of " Well bowled, Harold ", aimed mainly at Bradman who was also batting at the time.

The town is also home to the Sir Donald Bradman or Bradman Museum.

Aside from being a tenacious batsman, Lala Amarnath was also a bowler of some repute and was the only bowler to dismiss Donald Bradman hit wicket.

They have also deduced that, in his twilight years, " The Don " was locked in a shed at the back of his house in Bowral, NSW and forced to sign millions of items of all descriptions in order to capitalise on the inevitably lucrative market in Bradman memorabilia that would emerge after his death.

Later in the decade, Miller also publicly questioned Australia Post's exclusion of Newton from a series of stamps featuring notable Australians such as cricketer Sir Donald Bradman.

Fahey has also served as a Director of the Bradman Foundation since 2001.

" He also liked the idea of batting ahead of Bradman in the batting order: " Much better, I thought, to get in before him than to come later, like flat beer after champagne.

He was also known for his involvement in several cricket diplomacy incidents in his career, accused of leaking the infamous verbal exchange between Australian captain Bill Woodfull and English manager Plum Warner during the acrimonious Bodyline series, and later of causing sectarian tension within the team by leading a group of players of Irish Catholic descent in undermining the leadership of the Protestant Don Bradman.

During the same innings, Bradman also wrote in his newspaper report that Fingleton had been responsible for the run out of teammate Ray Rowe, which angered Fingleton for an extended period.

Bradman reached 58 in the second innings and appeared set to guide the team to victory when he was run out.

Except for " Bradman " and " Pastures of Plenty ", the tracks had not appeared on earlier albums by Paul Kelly & the Coloured Girls or Paul Kelly & the Messengers.

As Bradman later took a hard-running catch as a substitute fielder on the same day, some suspected that he had feigned injury to avoid playing on a rain-affected wicket hostile to batting — he had appeared uncomfortable against aggressive bowling in the previous Test.

After early roles in 1980s soap operas such as The Young Doctors, Prisoner and Sons and Daughters and the miniseries Bodyline ( in which she appeared as Jessie Bradman, Donald Bradman's wife ).