Facts about BRADMAN that i'm sure you didn't know

[The Great DonTalon]

1) His grandfather was christened as "Bradman'' instead of the commonly used "Bradnam''.

2) His father, George, died aged 85 at Berrima, NSW, on April 18, 1961, and his mother, Emily, died aged 73 at Campbelltown, NSW, on December 16, 1944.

3) Don Bradman was one of five children. His sisters were Islet, Lillian and May. His brother was Charles.

4) Bradman was born at a nursing home at 89 Adams St, Cootamundra, 200 miles south-west of Sydney, on August 28, 1908.

5) He was born on the same day as the future President of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson.

6) The midwife that delivered Don Bradman was Eliza Ellen Scholtz.

7) The first home of Don Bradman was a cottage at Yeo Yeo, NSW, on l
and owned by his father.

8) The Bradmans moved to Bowral in late 1910 or early 1911, into a house on the corner of Shepherd and Holly streets. Although the house still stands and is numbered 52, it was not numbered when the Bradmans lived there.

9) In 1924 the Bradmans moved to 20 Glebe Street, Bowral.

10) Bradman played just one innings in Cootamundra in his cricket career, scoring one at the end of the 1927-28 season when touring country NSW with a team called the Bohemians, organised by Arthur Mailey.

11) Bradman's first game of organised cricket was when he was aged 11, for his school at Glebe Park, Bowral. He batted at number four and scored 55 not out.

12) At the age of 12 he scored his first century, 115 not out for his school against Mittagong. This was the first of 211 centuries scored in all forms of cricket.

13) Bradman's first appearance in senior cricket was when, as scorer for the Bowral team, he was called into the line-up to make up the eleven. He batted at number eleven and scored 37 not out.

14) He made his first-class debut for NSW v South Australia at the Adelaide Oval on December 16, 1927. Some 4794 spectators were present on that day. The first ball he received was bowled by Clarrie Grimmett. Bradman scored 118, becoming the 16th Australian batsman to score a century on his first-class debut.

15) When Bradman moved from Bowral to Sydney, he lived with Mr and Mrs G.H. Pearce at Concord West.
16) Bradman's first job was as secretary of Deer and Westbrook, a real estate business.

17) Canon E.S. Hughes of St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, the "sporting parson'', married Don Bradman and Jessie McKenzie on April 30, 1932.
18) Bradman heard his name announced in the Australian Test team on radio station 2FC.

19) His first Test match, against England in 1928-29, was also the first ever played in Brisbane. He batted for 33 minutes in his first Test innings, scoring 18.

20) He was named 12th man for the Second Test, at the SCG.

21) In consecutive minor games in April 1929, Bradman scored 128 not out and took five for 34, and scored 117 and took five for 57 - all five bowled.

22) Bradman scored 200 or more in a single day 27 times in his first-class career.

23) In the 295 first-class innings in which Bradman was dismissed, he scored 16 ducks.

24) He bowled 2114 deliveries in first-class cricket.

25) He played more games at the SCG than any other venue: 46.
26) Bradman was Australia's 21st Test captain.

27) His last first-class game was in the Arthur Richardson testimonial match, South Australia v Victoria at the Adelaide Oval, in March 1949. Bradman was unable to bat in the second after he trod on the ball while fielding.

28) Bradman (South Australia) stumped Bill O'Reilly (NSW) off the bowling of Eddie Ward at the SCG in January 1938.
29) Bradman had a success rate of 51.67 per cent in the 120 first-class games in which he was captain.

30) Bradman was fielding for Australia against Canterbury at St Lawrence ground, Canterbury, when play was stopped so that a telegram could be delivered to him celebrating his 22nd birthday.

31) On the 1932 tour of Canada, Bradman once took six wickets in one eight-ball over against XV of Vancouver Island at Victoria.
32) Bradman met "Babe'' Ruth, the American baseball legend, at the Yankee Stadium, New York, in 1932.
33) Bradman broke his right ankle when bowling against England at The Oval in 1938.

34) Bradman's last game was for the Prime Minister's XI against the MCC in Canberra in February 1963; he scored 4.
35) The ABC's postal address in all capital cities is PO Box 9994. The number was selected because Bradman's Test batting average was 99.94.

36) Bradman was out Hit Wicket only once in his first-class career, off the bowling of Lala Amarnath in the 1st Test in Brisbane on December 1, 1947.

37) Bradman rarely bowled. His best bowling in first-class cricket was 3 for 35, for the Australians against Cambridge University at Cambridge in 1930.

38) Bradman bowled 21.7 overs in the first innings of South Australia v NSW at the Adelaide Oval in 1929-30.
39) As a captain, Bradman allowed himself to bowl just 52 deliveries in 120 games.

40) In the early 1960s Bradman reduced his golf handicap to scratch and became a pennant player. Four times he shot under par: 69 at Kooyunga (SA), 69 at Peninsular (Vic), 71 at Victoria (Vic) and 70 at Kingston Heath (Vic).

41) Bradman is the only Australian cricketer to be knighted.

42) He hit six sixes in his Test career

43) He is the only Australian who has twice scored a century and a duck in the same Test.

44) He was never dismissed in the 90s in Test cricket.

45) He holds the record for the fastest double century; 214 minutes, against England at Leeds in 1934.

46) He shared four triple-century partnerships in Test cricket: two with Bill Ponsford and one each with Jack Fingleton and Sid Barnes.

47) Although he was dismissed for a duck in his last Test innings in 1948, he still managed to score centuries in his last three first-class innings on English soil.

48) Some say the Walt Disney cartoon character Donald Duck was named after Don Bradman. Bradman scored a duck on the 1932 tour of North America. Walt Disney was a cricket fan and a member of the Hollywood Cricket Club.

49) Bradman won the South Australian squash championship in 1939.

50) In successive first-class matches in 1940-41, Bradman suffered two firs
t-ball ducks.

[R W S]

Entertaining stuff Don -thanks

[Ernest]

Good read this,entertaining.

ern

[Mike Small]

The Donuld Duck one is particularly interesting, good read though overall, I'll agree as well on that.