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Bradman inaugurated a " Bradman Stand " at the Sydney Cricket Ground in January 1974 ; the Adelaide Oval also opened a Bradman Stand in 1990.
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The Bradman Stand ( named in 1990 ) at the Adelaide Oval
The second stage, completed in 1973 at a cost of $ 2 million, was named the Bradman Stand after the great man himself.
* Bradman Stand – Built 1973, Demolished 2012 – Public reserved seating.
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Bradman fulfilled his promise in the 1930 series when he scored 974 runs at 139. 14, which remains a world record Test series aggregate.
Bradman himself thought that his 254 in the preceding match, at Lord's, was a better innings.
England managed to stay in contention until the deciding final Test at The Oval, but yet another double hundred by Bradman, and 7 / 92 by Percy Hornibrook in England's second innings, enabled Australia to win by an innings and take the series 2 – 1.
The 1948 series ended with one of the most poignant moments in cricket history, as Bradman played his final innings for Australia in the Fifth Test at The Oval, needing to score only four runs to end with a career batting average of exactly 100.
Australia won the five-Test series 2 – 1, with Don Bradman scoring 974 runs at a batting average of 139. 14, an aggregate record that still stands.
Bradman was seen to be uncomfortable facing deliveries which bounced higher than usual at a faster pace, being seen to step back out of the line of the ball.
On the opening day, Bradman wildly hooked at Bill Bowes ' first ball ( a non-bodyline ball ) and was dismissed for a golden duck, leaving the entire stadium in shock.
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.
Ironically, Bradman was bowled shortly thereafter at a memorial match by Grimmett, who produced a perfectly pitched stock ball that turned just enough to remove Bradman's off bail.
* August 14 – 1948 Ashes series: The Australian batsman Don Bradman, playing his last Test cricket match, against England at The Oval, is bowled by Eric Hollies for a duck ; however, " The Invincibles " win the match by an innings and 149 runs, and The Ashes 4-0.
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.
During a 20-year playing career, Bradman consistently scored at a level that made him, in the words of former Australia captain Bill Woodfull, " worth three batsmen to Australia ".
Donald Bradman was the youngest son of George and Emily ( née Whatman ) Bradman, and was born on 27 August 1908 at Cootamundra, New South Wales ( NSW ).
When hit into the curved brick facing of the stand, the ball rebounded at high speed and varying angles — and Bradman would attempt to hit it again.
Selected to replace the unfit Archie Jackson in the NSW team, Bradman made his first-class debut at the Adelaide Oval, aged 19.
Recalled for the Third Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Bradman scored 79 and 112 to become the youngest player to make a Test century, although the match was still lost.
Bradman top-scored with 123 in the first innings, and was at the wicket in the second innings when his captain Jack Ryder hit the winning runs.
Against Queensland at the SCG, Bradman set a then world record for first-class cricket by scoring 452 not out ; he made his runs in only 415 minutes.
However, Bradman began the tour with 236 at Worcester and went on to score 1, 000 first-class runs by the end of May, the fifth player ( and first Australian ) to achieve this rare feat.
In the Third Test, at Leeds, Bradman scored a century before lunch on 11 July, the first day of the Test match to equal the performances of Victor Trumper and Charlie Macartney.
In all, Bradman scored 974 runs at an average of 139. 14 during the Test series, with four centuries, including two double hundreds and a triple.
At this point, Bradman had played 15 Test matches since the beginning of 1930, scoring 2, 227 runs at an average of 131.
Playing 51 games in 75 days, Bradman scored 3, 779 runs at 102. 1, with 18 centuries.
Bradman and Sydney
However, in his autobiography, Fingleton claimed that Sydney Sun reporter Claude Corbett had received the information from Bradman.
The other five players chosen were Sydney Barnes, Don Bradman, Jack Hobbs, Tom Richardson and Victor Trumper.
Bradman became a regular selection for the Bowral team ; several outstanding performances earned him the attention of the Sydney daily press.
For the remainder of the season, Bradman travelled the from Bowral to Sydney every Saturday to play for St George.
Bradman decided that his chances for Test selection would be improved by moving to Sydney for the 1928 – 29 season, when England were to tour in defence of the Ashes.
They asked Bradman to leave his teammates and attend official receptions they organised in Adelaide, Melbourne, Goulburn, his hometown Bowral and Sydney, where he received a brand new custom-built Chevrolet.
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.
To start the new season, the Test side played a " Rest of Australia " team, captained by Bradman, at Sydney in early October 1936.
Bradman regained his finest pre-war form in making 187, followed by 234 during the Second Test at Sydney.
On 15 November, Bradman made 172 against them for an Australian XI at Sydney, his 100th first-class century.
In a Sheffield Shield cricket match at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1930, Don Bradman, a young New South Welshman of just 21 years of age, wrote his name into the record books at by smashing the previous highest batting score in first-class cricket with 452 runs not out in just 415 minutes.
On 31 December, it was announced that Giles was to step out of the One Day match between the ODI squad and the Bradman XI, and into the Test squad for the final Test match in Sydney.
* Clarke followed up his 329 * in Sydney with 210 in Adelaide, thereby joining Don Bradman and Wally Hammond as the only players to have made a triple century and a double century in the same series.
It was the first time since Sir Donald Bradman that a player had scored 300 at the SCG, and an innings which the Sydney Morning Herald called " superb ".
The other five players chosen were Sydney Barnes, Don Bradman, W G Grace, Jack Hobbs, and Victor Trumper
He helped create an enduring record when scoring 234 in the second Test against England at Sydney in December 1946 ; exactly the same score as his captain, Don Bradman, in the process setting a world-record 405 run fifth wicket partnership.
He has continued his involvement in cricket as an administrator, working with the New South Wales Cricket Association, the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust and the Bradman Museum.
* Images of Bradman with Peter Allen ( Sydney: Allen and Kemsley, 1994 ).
In a Sheffield Shield cricket match at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1930, Don Bradman, a young New South Welshman of just 21 years of age wrote his name into the record books by smashing the previous highest batting score in first-class cricket with 452 runs not out in just 415 minutes.
He only played in two Tests against South Africa in Brisbane and Sydney in 1931 and could probably be considered unlucky to have arrived at his best years at the same time as cricketing greats such as Don Bradman, Bill Ponsford, Bill Woodfull, Archie Jackson, Stan McCabe and Alan Kippax.
Despite her record in women's cricket, Goss's most famous cricketing appearance was in the Bradman Foundation charity match in Sydney in December 1994.
At the start of the 1926 – 27 season, he captained a combined Sydney City team against a New South Wales country team, which included the then 18-year-old Bradman.
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