The Ashes (2009)
The Ashes
“His extraordinary achievements have been widely chronicled and his Test batting average of 99.94 is the sport’s best-known statistic. The legend of ‘The Don’—not merely as a player but as administrator, selector, sage and cricketing statesman—only intensified after his last Test in 1948, and even his death in 2001 did not take anything from the special meaning his name has for every Australian and every cricket enthusiast. His figures are a constant reminder that there is a standard in batting—...the Bradman standard. He batted 338 times in first-class cricket from 1927 to 1949, scoring 28,067 and averaging 95.14. He hit 117 centuries at better than one every three innings, including 452 not out for New South Wales in 1930. Bradman hit 37 scores of 200 or more while his nearest rival in this field, England’s Wally Hammond, hit 36 in three times as many innings. In 52 Tests he scored 6996 runs at 99.94, or, rounded off, a century every time he went out to bat in his 80 innings.MoreLess
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