His final, anomalous innings might be his best known, but it’s worth recalling a crucial inflection point of the cricket great’s career at the MCG
Vote for your favourite Australian sporting momentThe best known moment in the career of Australia’s greatest cricketer is glorious failure. Don Bradman’s final innings duck in the fifth Ashes Test in 1948 at the Oval had little bearing on the match. His team won by an innings and 149 runs, clinching the series 4-0.
It is failure, yet it underpins the Bradman legend. An instance of fallibility that makes his seemingly impossible career believable even now, approaching a century later. He retired with an average of 100, save for the rounding of a decimal point. All up, 6,996 Test runs, but still four short.
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