Biography of don bradman
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Bradman's History
The Bowral wonder
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Bradman’s first century
State selection
Bradman made his Sheffield Shield debut playing for New South Wales against South Australia in Adelaide on 17 December 1927.
Bradman had been listed as the twelfth man in the squad but an injury to Archie Jackson brought Bradman into the line-up. He scored 118 runs, making him the 20th Australian batsman to make a century in a first-class debut.
In the final match of the season, he scored his first century at the SCG, this time against Victoria, who held the Sheffield Shield.
Australian representation
To improve his chance for selection in the national team, Bradman moved to Sydney in 1928.
In the first game of the 1928–29 Sheffield Shield season he scored a century against Queensland. He continued that form with the New South Wales team against the touring England side with an 87 and 132 and was rewarded with selection for the Australian team’s first test of the year against England.
The first test in Brisbane was an inauspicious debut for Bradman as Australia lost by 675 runs, the country’s greatest ever loss by runs in test cricket. Bradman was only able to contribute scores of 18 and one, a performance that saw the young batsman dropped to twelfth man in the second test.
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Donald Bradman
Sir Donald Bradman of Australia was, beyond any argument, the greatest batsman who ever lived and the greatest cricketer of the 20th century. Only WG Grace, in the formative years of the game, even remotely matched his status as a player. And The Don lived on into the 21st century, more than half a century after he retired. In that time, his reputation not merely as a player but as an administrator, selector, sage and cricketing statesman only increased. His contribution transcended sport; his exploits changed Australia's relationship to what used to be called the "mother country".
Throughout the 1930s and 40s Bradman was the world's master cricketer, so far ahead of everyone else that comparisons became pointless. In 1930, he scored 974 runs in the series, 309 of them in one amazing day at Headingley, and in seven Test series against England he remained a figure of utter dominance; Australia lost the Ashes only once, in 1932-33, when England were so spooked by Bradman that they devised a system of bowling, Bodyline, that history has damned as brutal and unfair, simply to thwart him. He still averaged 56 in the series.
In all, he went to the crease 80 times in Tests, and scored 29 centuries. He needed just four in his last Test innings, at The Oval in 1948,