- Australian Cricket player.
- In his last cricket innings, he needed only 4 runs to attain a test cricket batting average off 100. He got out for a duck (0 runs) and finished with an average of 99.94.
- Has one son and one daughter.
- Wisden Cricketer of the Year, 1931
- He was awarded the A.C. (Companion of the Order of Australia) in the 1979 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to sports and cricket.
- Knighted for services to cricket, 1949
- Named Australian "Sportsman of the Century" in 1999.
- A minute's silence was observed at every state and international game following his death.
- His score of 334 against England in 1930 is now the equal second highest ever Test score by an Australian batsman. The highest was scored by Matthew Hayden in October, 2003. Bradman shares the second highest with Mark Taylor.
- Awarded life membership of the Marylebone Cricket Club, which was extended to an honorary vice-presidency in 1988 'in recognition of his unique contribution to the game of cricket'.
- Famously learnt how to bat as a child by hitting a golf ball with a cricket bat against a brick watertank stand.
- Has stands named after him at most major Australian cricket grounds, as well as the Bradman Oval at his childhood home of Bowral, New South Wales.
- The post office box of the Australian Broadcasting Commission is 9994 - a homage to Bradman's Test batting average of 99.94.
- The only established batsman in the history of cricket never to have gotten out in the 90s.
- One of Wisden's Cricketers of the Century.
- He was awarded the Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 1949 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to the sport of cricket.
- He was awarded the Australian Sports Medal in the 2001 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to cricket.
- Ranked #1 in ESPN's Legends Of Cricket series.
- Voted by Wisden as the greatest test batsman of all-time in 2001. In fact, even though he retired close to 25 years before the inception of ODI cricket, he is rated by both analysts and fans as the greatest batsman in cricket history altogether.
- Still holds the record for most double centuries in test cricket, with 12 individual scores of 200 or above.
- Just a few months before his death, he was voted as "The greatest living Australian" the previous year.
- As chairman of the Australian Cricket Board, he denied media mogul Kerry Packer the rights to broadcast Australia's matches on Packer's Nine Network, leading Packer to form his own private cricket league comprised of the best cricketers from Australia as well as other nations, known as World Series Cricket.
- Not only has he been an obvious inclusion in every Dream XI team made by magazines, commentators and analysts, he has also been named captain of most of them, including the Australian Cricket Board's "Team of the century" as well as the Wisden Cricket Almanac's Dream Team issued on the 150th anniversary of the magazine.
- Bradman registered 29 tons and 13 half-centuries in his active career, making his hundreds to fifties ratio equivalent to 2.23, the highest for any specialist batsman with more centuries than half-centuries. The next highest happens to be that of Bradman's West Indies rival George Headley, who scored 10 tons and 5 fifties, making the ratio exactly 2.
- One of the only 4 cricketers to have scored 2 triple centuries in international cricket, the others being West Indies' Brian Lara as well as Chris Gayle and India's Virender Sehwag.
- Never got along with his team's star bowler Bill O'Reilly, the latter often complained that Bradman was "merely competitive rather than aggressive as he should've been".
- Was greatly disturbed by South African Cricket Board's hardline racist policies when they denied England a tour just because England's then star all-rounder Basil Olivera was a person of color. Bradman therefore voted in favor of boycotting South Africa from the cricket fraternity altogether despite his admiration for South Africa's star players like Graeme Pollock, his brother Peter and Barry Richards. The mentioned players too supported the move on moral grounds.
- Despite their bitter rivalry, he greatly admired England legend Wolly Hammond, claiming Hammond played swing bowling better than any other in the game. Also quoted that his West Indies rival George Headley was the best batsman he had witnessed on wet sticky wickets.
- Scored 5000 of his career's 6996 runs in Ashes tests alone, averaging almost 90 with 19 centuries.
- Upon watching an 18 year old Sachin Tendulkar hitting a century at the WACA Stadium in Perth, widely considered the fastest cricket pitch in the world, Bradman claimed Tendulkar was the closest to his own batting style during his prime years. Barely a decade later, Tendulkar would be voted by Wisden as next only to Bradman as the greatest test batsman of all-time.
- Served with the Royal Australian Air Force during World War 2.
- Captained Australia in 24 tests, winning 15 of them.
- His 270 against England at Melbourne during the 1936-37 Ashes was voted by Wisden as the greatest individual test innings of all-time. Australia prior to the test were trailing 2-0, but went on to win the test and the following two, becoming the only team as of date to win a test series despite being down 2-0 initially. Bradman recorded scores of 212 and 169 in the fourth and fifth tests.
- Although significantly lower than his unreal career average of 99.94, Bradman averaged 79 in all the opening tests of his career, 7 more than the second best 72.59 of English great Ken Barrington.
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