The Story of a Dead Cricketer

Brahman first test found him in a sticky wicket. Australia was 66 in the second innings. He was dropped from the team. With the injury of Bill Ponsford Bradman had to field for the rest of the test match. In the third test match Bradman a 79 and 123 to become the youngest player to score a hundred runs. The fourth test match was lost with 55 scored in the first innings and he was run out in the second. In the firth and final test Australia managed to win with 123 scored by bradman in the first innings, in the second bradman was batting with caption Jack Ryder when he hit the winning runs to win the match. Play a Sheffield Shield match Bradman scored 340 not out and set a recored for the highest score at the SCG.   In a trial match Sir Donald Bradman scored 434.

My Test Career was been great, I started poor and was luckily that Bill Ponsford was injured and was given another chance to play. The next three games we lost but in the last game, my 123 set the stranded for our team to perform.

Footage of Sir Donald Bradman

In 1920-1921 he was a scorer for the local team. In 1920 he filled in for his uncles team. He scored 37 not out and 29 not out. In 1922 he left school and worked as a real estate agent in the local area. Gave up play cricket for 2 years to play tennis and then he resumed playing again. He became a regular selection of the Bowral cricket team. Against the future test bowler Bill O’ Reily Bradman scored 234. In the final against Moss Vale he scored 320 not out. NSW cricket club began to look for new talent. Bradman was asked if he want to have a practise season to see if he was any good. He was asked to play for St George in the 1926-27 season. On his first game he scored 110. Every day Bradman travel 130km a day to play cricket for St George on Saturday.

Born on the 27 August 1908 at Cootamundra in New South Wales. He has three sisters and a brother. He moved to a Bowral in NSW.  In his early years of he practised useing a stump as a bat and a grolf ball and hit it against a water tank. Scored his first test centruy at the age of 12.

Mum said that if I score a hundred at the cricket match tomorrow I get  a new cricket bat.

And I went out a scored three hundred