2006-06-11 06:50:26 · 9 answers · asked by ruchi 2 in Sports ➔ Cricket
Sir.Don Bradman scored 29 test centuries and he belongs to Australia.
2006-06-11 06:57:47 · answer #1 · answered by Santu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sir don bradman had scored 29 test centuries with having average of 99.99 in 52 test matches,he belonged 2 austrailia,,,
2006-06-11 17:37:15 · answer #2 · answered by harish007 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He belonged to Australia, and was 40 when he ended playing. he scored 29 centuries, with an average of 99.94 runs, missing the perfect 100 run average.
2006-06-11 22:44:00 · answer #3 · answered by Oye chak de phatte!! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AUSTRALIA
DON BRADMAN
(1908 - 2001)
This TV documentary will be revised, following the death of Sir Donald Bradman on February 25, 2001.
Sir Donald Bradman is an Australian sporting hero.
His achievements on the cricket field from 1928 to 1948 are still among the world's best.
He's the only Australian ever knighted for services to the game of cricket.
"I am quite certain he was the best cricketer ever to walk onto a cricket ground in any part of the whole wide world." (Bill O'Reilly - former Test Cricketer)
The boy who became a cricket legend was born in 1908. His family lived in the country, not far from Sydney.
Don Bradman was a small boy who was very quick on his feet.
His school didn't have much sport, so Don invented games to amuse himself.
One of his favourites was to hit a golf ball against a tank stand with a cricket stump.
"At the time it had no meaning. I was just enjoying myself. It never entered my head that I was training my eyesight and movements."
Don left school when he was fourteen and didn't start playing cricket seriously until he was sixteen.
In one of his first matches he scored a massive three hundred.
It wasn't long before the New South Wales cricket selectors wanted Don in their team.
"When he came down we all saw his superb confidence. The selectors were impressed and sent him to Adelaide and Melbourne. He scored a century at Adelaide." (Bert Oldfield, Aust. Wicket Keeper, 1920-37)
In 1928, he was selected to play for Australia against England. He had just turned twenty.
Don scored a century in the Third Test, but Australia lost the series.
He was soon hailed as a run scoring machine. Playing in a state match Don made 452 in world record time.
"It's the speed with which you score runs, that is a very important factor. The world record score that I made, that 452, was made in a little over 400 minutes."
His outstanding batting guaranteed Don a place on the 1930 Australian team to tour England. It took them six weeks to sail there.
"It was a tremendous adventure of course, and I enjoyed it, but I'm the worst sailor ever born. I got seasick before I even got on the boat."
The tour was a success all round. Don batted superbly, scoring 974 runs for the Test series.
"I'm going to go out and get as many runs as I can and if in getting those runs I break a record, well, I'll be pleased, but I don't set out to deliberately break records."
The Australian cricketers came home superstars, Don Bradman the biggest. Experts were trying to figure out what made him so good.
"He's the most phenomenal run machine the world has ever seen."
At twenty-four Don married Jessie Menzies, a girl from his home town.
He was starting to think about his future, and decided to learn about business. It proved very useful later in life.
In 1932, England toured Australia.
Desperate to stop Don scoring so easily, they came up with the nastiest tactic cricket had seen.
Called 'Bodyline', the English bowlers aimed for the batsman's body.
"If I had stood exactly where I was, that ball would have hit me in the chest."
Bodyline kept Don Bradman's batting average down, and England won the series.
In 1936 Don was made Australian Captain.
"I was a most inexperienced Captain, and it wasn't an easy job."
World War Two interrupted a brilliant cricket career.
When it was over, Don was soon back in England. It was here that Don Bradman played his last test innings, he was out second ball. Don retired with a test cricket average of 99.94.
After being knighted in 1949, Sir Donald Bradman wanted a very private life. He'll be long remembered for his sporting skill, gentle manner and good humour.
Sir Donald Bradman died of pneumonia at his home in Adelaide on 25 February 2001.
Related websites
Sir Donald Bradman - ABC News
State Library of SA - The Donald Bradman Collection
2006-06-11 17:01:45 · answer #4 · answered by GoodLooking 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In all first class cricket, the Don (Australian) scored 117 centuries, in only 234 matches, the best conversion rate by far of all those with over 100 centuries.
2006-06-11 08:02:46 · answer #5 · answered by Stephan B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sir bradman frm australlia has scored 29 centuries
2006-06-11 06:58:09 · answer #6 · answered by ruchi 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he scored 29 centuries and belonged to the australian team
2006-06-11 18:07:14 · answer #7 · answered by Kaushal Dedhia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
29 centuries 2 triple hundred not out on 299 more than once and the fastest triple hundreds in terms of time taken. he played for australia
2006-06-11 22:18:07 · answer #8 · answered by himangshu h 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no idea..
2006-06-11 06:55:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋