Biography of Sir Donald Bradman
Sir Donald Bradman is known to be the greatest cricketer of the 20th century. This greatman was born on August 27 in 1908 in New South Wales in Australia. He started his career as a cricketer playing against New South Wales. In that match he scored 118 runs and arrested the attention of the cricket lovers. He played the highest number of innings in Australia. In 1927/ 28 he started his career as a leading cricketer by scoring 452 not out against South Australia. He became the captain of Australian Cricket team in 1936. Then he became the national selector in 1938. He was the only cricketer in Australia to be Knighted. He published his autobiography- "Farewell Cricket" in 1950. In 1960 he was made the Chairman of Australian Cricket Board. He scored 29 centuries, 13 half-centuries and 6996 runs in all . His average run in Test Cricket is 99.94. This great cricketer left this world in February, 2001.
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