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The Bradman Stand ( named in 1990 ) at the Adelaide Oval
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Bradman and Stand
Bradman inaugurated a " Bradman Stand " at the Sydney Cricket Ground in January 1974 ; the Adelaide Oval also opened a Bradman Stand in 1990.
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.
Bradman and named
With his wife, Bradman returned to Bowral in 1976, where the new cricket ground was named in his honour.
As early as 1939, Bradman had a Royal Navy ship named after him.
The first stage, begun while Bradman was still playing for New South Wales, was opened in 1936 at a cost of £ 90, 000 and named the ‘ M. A.
Possibly one of the best spinners and certainly a respected journalist was the aptly named Ian Peebles, who was one of the cricketers of the year in 1931 alongside Donald Bradman.
He was named after the legendary Australian cricketer Don Bradman who sailed to Colombo on the day of his birth.
Bradman and 1990
* The Sir Donald Bradman stand was built in 1990 to replace the John Creswell stand and now provides up to date facilities for spectators.
Bradman and at
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 Adelaide
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.
Harry Hodgetts, a South Australian delegate to the Board of Control, offered Bradman work as a stockbroker if he would relocate to Adelaide and captain South Australia ( SA ).
The next Test, at the Adelaide Oval, was fairly even until Bradman played another patient second innings, making 212 from 395 balls.
The RAAF had more recruits than it could equip and train and Bradman spent four months in Adelaide before the Governor-General of Australia, Lord Gowrie, persuaded Bradman to transfer to the army, a move that was criticised as a safer option for him.
Bradman moved quickly to set up his own business, utilizing Hodgetts ' client list and his old office in Grenfell Street, Adelaide.
Bradman statue outside the Adelaide Oval
* 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.
This would make Barnes the first batsman to be dismissed by Bedser's " Special Ball " which would claim Bradman for a duck in the Fourth Test at Adelaide.
In the fourth Test at Adelaide he made 112 and put on 236 with Bradman for the second wicket.
* Sir Donald Bradman Drive, running east-west between the City of Adelaide and West Beach.
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