Don Bradman is perhaps the greatest Cricketer of all time. He is certainly in the Top 3 of all time and as far as batters are concerned, Don Bradman was the ultimate hero for all the young people who wanted to play cricket. Australia and beyond. Don Bradman played cricket during 1928-1948 and in these 20 years cricket was played not regularly but few times in the year. He played 52 Matches in 20 years meaning just over 2 Test Matches per year.
Don Bradman batted for 80 Innings in the 52 Matches and in those innings he made 6996 runs at a mind bogglingly astonishing average of 99.94. He only needed to make 4 runs in his last test innings and his average would have touched 100. Let’s look at the list of records that Don Bradman held at the time.
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Don Bradman Records List
1) He has the highest average in Test Cricket for a cricketer who has played more than 50 Test Matches at 99.94. Frankly this record will Never be broken in spite of everyone saying all records are meant to be broken.
2) He held the record for hitting the most number of Test Hundreds with 29 Test Hundreds and he held that record for almost 4 decades. Sunil Gavaskar broke his record many decades later.
3) He is the fastest to reach 6000 runs in Test Cricket as he achieved this feat in just 68 Innings. Don Bradman was a run machine and no one has come close to him.
4) He has scored the most runs in a Test Series by a captain in Test Cricket. He made 810 runs in a Test Series and it has yet to be broken.
5) He has the record for hitting hundreds in most consecutive Test Matches as he hit Hundreds in 6 consecutive Test Matches in his glorious career. No other batter in all these decades has been able to replicate this.
6) He held the record for hitting the most fours in a Test innings when he hit 46 fours against England in 1930 when he hit 334. This record stood with him for 35 years.
7) Don Bradman has scored the most number of runs in an Ashes Series in 1930 when he made 974 Runs in just 7 innings at a mind blowing average of 139.14 and he scored 4 hundreds.
8) Don Bradman Is the only batter in Test Cricket history to have made more than 5000 runs against a single opponent as he made 5028 runs in 37 Test Matches against England at an incredible average of 89.78
9) Don Bradman has the record of making the fastest 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000 and 6000 runs in the history of Test Cricket. It has been 75 years since he retired and yet no one has been able to break these records
10) Don Bradman also has the record of making the most number of double hundreds in Test Cricket. He has made 12 Double Hundreds in Test Cricket.
11) Don Bradman has scored the single most runs by a batter in a day of Test Cricket when he made 309 runs against England in 1930.
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