Australia's all-time greatest Test XI

#3 Sir Donald Bradman

Sir Don Bradman

Bradman remained a cricketer whose name and fame transcended the game of cricket itself. We can easily conclude that his Test batting average of 99.94 would not be eclipsed ever. Bradman made 6996 runs in only 52 Test matches with 29 centuries. He also made 12 double hundreds in the 80 innings he played in Test cricket.

Most of Bradman’s batting statistics defy belief and have given him a mythical status in cricket. The strategy of “leg theory” in the infamous Bodyline series was devised for him only, but could not stop him from averaging 56 in that series, which is more than the career average of many great batsmen.

He also remains one of the very few batsmen to have scored 300 runs on a single day of a Test match. He also made two triple hundreds in his career. He needed to score only 4 runs in his last test inning to end up with a career average over 100, but could not score any run before being dismissed. That quite possibly was the only blemish in his otherwise unparalleled career.