I know in this day and age we have our fair share of great Cricketers with the likes of Lara, Ponting,
Warne, Flintoff and Tendulkar who all have achieved a lot in the game.
But when it come to statistics and records there is one man that is head and shoulders above everyone that has ever graced the beautiful game of Cricket and that is Sir Donald Bradman.
Born in Cootamundra, New South Wales on August 27th 1908 Sir Donald ‘George’ Bradman was the youngest child of 5, 1 brother and 3 sisters to George and Emily. Donald started playing Cricket at School hitting his first century at the age of ’12’ then went on to lay for his local bush team Bowral, generally making up the numbers when players were injured or could not make the game.
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By the age of 19 he had made all the local papers with his exploits for his local team and was given a chance at First Class Cricket for New South Wales replacing Archie Jackson who was unfit and what a debut it was, looking like he had been playing for years he scored a magnificent 118 runs which cemented his place in the side for years to come.
Perhaps Donald will be best remembered for his exploits during the Ashes tour of England an 1930, Scoring 131 in the first test then 254 in the second test, but his remarkable 309 on day one of the third test which still has never been eclipsed by any other Cricketer anywhere in the World is the reason why Mr Bradman will go down in history as the Greatest batsman EVER.
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